ndavies point needs to be re-inforced. "Business" just means all of us. To pay our taxes, US needs jobs. Businesses are all almost all jobs. Without trade, commerce, and industry, we'd be organic, agrarian, and poor.
If you want to tax 'business', just raises income tax rates on high earners -- in which case you'll get the evil business owners, and at the same time you'll get Wayne County retirees and College Presidents in the bargain.
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