I propose that companies that provide employees with higher wages in their field should have lower corporate tax.

I propose that companies that provide employees with lower wages in their field should have ordinary corporate tax.

Any form of charity increase by a company, I think, should result in a reduction in corporate tax that goes BEYOND THE COSTS of that increase in charity.

This system will be based on a ranking of charity that compares companies within a given field.

Let's see how far they could take this. A new way of competition!

Conservatives will finally like increasing their charity to the poor because you could give yourself lower tax rate by doing so.

Democrats will finally like lowering their taxes because they do it in order to help increasing the wages of poor people.

Everybody wins!

Normally, you would have to increase taxes to help the poor people - NOT TRUE IN THIS CASE!

The power to lower your taxes by increasing your charity to others - and lowering them beyond the costs of the charity (that is the only thing I know that will solve the problem of the economic disequilibrium that currently exists).

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How do you plan to identify these workers?

Most companies wages have increased dramatically year on year, primarily due to executative pay which has gone up by nonsensecial. And managers are classed as employees as well.

Plus if wages weren't increasing every year then they would be declining due to inflation so companies would be getting tax breaks for merely increasing by the inflation amount.

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I don't have a plan to identify the workers. In this proposed system, the wages are important in determining whether the company deserves a tax break.

A potential result is that companies will increase wages and decrease the number of jobs they create.
I think it would be better to tie taxes to how low the corporate executives' salaries are... thus making putting money into the business more useful than inflating your cushy lifestyle. Putting money into business will create more and better jobs and possibly lead to more technological advances that we need.
When you look at how these executives reward themselves over time with the blessings of blissful stockholders... that's where you see a big waste.
It's not that big a deal that workers' wages barely keep pace with inflation until you factor in that executives' wages way outpace it, and dwarf the pay of foreign executives that are doing a better job.
They pay a great deal, not unlike the government, to find a way to make the books look as good as possible, often cutting quality to do so... because it's a surer thing than innovation and risk- what creates real economic growth.

So tie corporate taxes to quality of service and products. Tie it to the decency of its executives. Tie it to risk in order to offset the squeamish stockholders' influence and create a good balance...
I don't think it's possible to engineer the results we want from taxes.
We, the consumers and stockholders (the people in other words) simply need to start demanding decency from our corporate sector. Then we can work on the government.

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