/substancePolitics & policyBreakling reply @EricLDaugh /substance 2026-09-18
Original · Eric Daugherty
🔥 WOW! Scott Jennings with the mic drop of a LIFE TIME to Abby Phillip's face on CNN PHILLIP: Tariffs are destructive for consumers! JENNINGS: Zero out corporate income taxes then! Why are certain taxes good and certain taxes bad? Because TRUMP did one and you do the other! Th…
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Tariffs can raise consumer prices, but the same basic question applies to corporate income taxes: who ultimately bears the cost? If the objection is that businesses do not absorb taxes cleanly, that principle cannot apply only when Trump chooses the tax. The serious debate is about each tax's burden and trade-offs—not which party imposed it.
About the claims
The Joint Committee on Taxation describes corporate-tax incidence as contested but potentially borne partly by labor through lower wages and by owners of capital through lower returns.