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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
You think providing a preferential rate to small business is the government "shaping and molding" its citizens? It seems to me that it's an attempt to improve the economy, thereby improving the average quality of life within the country.
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I am not familiar with every provision of the US tax code.
However, a government that provides a preferential tax rate to anyone (small business, big business, mortgaged home-owners, etc)--and only to that group of people or entities to the exclusion of others--is very much a government that is attempting to shape and mold its citizens. Simply by offering the preferential tax rate, the government is encouraging people to go into that which gives preferential tax rates and discouraging people from doing that which is not given preferential tax rates.
And although the government--and certain citizens or segments of society--may argue that, by offering the preferential tax rate, it is merely trying to improve everyone's quality of life, it is doing so (if it is actually doing so at all!) at the expense of those who do not get the preferential tax rate.
And how is everyone's quality of life being improved when only certain people are receiving advantages--and when certain other people are the only ones who have to pay for it?