No matter where they derive the funds it's still a cost of doing business. the funds are invariably obtained by cutting profit margins, cutting service, or cutting product quality OR raising prices. If the market won't allow an increase they go out of business. If it will allow it but the margin is too low they have to decide is all this work worth the bother or not. Same conclusion. The only other consideration is political. How many employees. If negligible they disappear or move to another country to regain a proper profit/loss ratio in the final column If a huge amount they black mail the liberals into a too big to fail and besides no more campaign contributions scenario.

At the end of the day it's all overhead minus all sales receipts equals profit or loss.The cost of collecting the tax for the government and passing it to the treasury takes an administrative unit of employees ergo sum cost of government.

In Australia they use the COG column to define the total cost of doing business. Here we use fairy tales claiming businesses pay taxes instead of facing the fact that businesses are an arm of the Treasury Department - paid or not.

True. Fascist meaning control by any means includes methods not necessarily used by Nazis and Communists or others of the direct torture and elimination segment. Control of any citizens income, their medical, their education, the rearing of their children, and who they are allowed to vote for is just as insiduous and evil even though not one water board was used. so far.These things seem to progress in a regressive manner.

The alternative is the end user consumption tax which puts each wage earner in charge of their spending or for their savings. I MIGHT go along with a Right To Life provision for certain items needed to simply exist and in a certain dollar amount or limit which would include all welfare as income. Food, Shelter, Clothing, Medicine, Air and water (for those in Detroit) After that what to purchase, for how much, and when is the citizens decision the price of which governs the amount of end user tax AS LONG AS it completely replaced the other taxes.None of this we'll keep that in reserve for emergencies crap. If the government doesn't have enough then let them downsize or better yet use the recall to force a downsize and a return to their real job as employees not masters. That is citizens controlling government by their vote and by their purchases. Dump the draft completely for a third way to vote join up or not join up. has to start somewhere But the Right To Life Exemption from end user consumption tax (like the sales tax free days in Florida. has some merit.

Next question. Does it ban income tax at all levels? If not then that level gets no income from the End User Tax better yet a complete ban. rather than leave a 50 head medusa.

Then as I've done explain the replacement as a freedom of choice measure. the opposite of a fascist no choice system. Government over citizens or citizens over government. There are only two choices and there should be only one. If Government over citizens is retained there should be only none.

Question? How much tax does any business pay?

Answer: Zero.

Like any other form of overhead it' gets added to the cost of doing business and passed on to the next level of buyer. All the way down to the end consumer who is the only taxpayer. the column heading is COG for Cost of Government. except maybe in the USA where play pretend is acceptable.
COG follows all business related overhead and precedes adjusted profit or loss

Amen to the last line. It's a fascist tax on it's face and has no reason to exist other than control of the population.