Corporate Tax Rates Drives Out Business

This is too easy - the reason the progressive won't, can't, lower tax rates is this will allow their power base to evaporate and that is totally unacceptable. Without the ability to control the revenue flow through their fingers which allows them to direct where the funds go, they will be powerless to influence outcomes.

Worse for the progressive socialists, they have to watch revenues grow from allowing the private enterprise expanding and paying more taxes from higher profits. Success breeds success. 

Allowing private enterprise to flurious always works. History can't lie. Progressive socialism always fails. Just look around for the proof.

Corporate Tax Competitiveness Rankings for 2012
Source: Duanjie Chen and Jack Mintz, "Corporate Tax Competitiveness Rankings for 2012," Cato Institute, September 2012.

September 26, 2012
Despite anti-corporate sentiment running high in many parts of the world, few countries have increased corporate tax rates. On the contrary, many countries, including the United States, are considering proposals that would decrease the corporate tax rate. Both presidential candidates have expressed a willingness to bring down taxes on corporations, say Duanjie Chen and Jack Mintz of the University of Calgary's School of Public Policy.

•The combined federal-state tax rate on corporations is 40 percent in the United States.
•In 2012, the tax rate on new corporate investments is 35.6 percent in the United States.
•However, the average tax rate of 34 other Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries is 19.4 percent.
•The average corporate tax rate of 90 other countries is 18.2 percent.

The presidential race has highlighted the importance of changing the corporate tax rate, as many companies have considered moving overseas in order to take advantage of lower corporate tax rates. President Obama has proposed reducing the rate from 35 percent to 28 percent while broadening the tax base. Mitt Romney has said he would cut the tax rate to 25 percent.

Policymakers in the United States should look to Canada's corporate tax reforms, which have brought more investment and spurred economic growth.

•The federal statutory tax rate was cut from 29.12 percent to 15 percent, while cutting the provincial rate from 13.3 percent to 11.1 percent.
•In addition, most federal and provincial were eliminated, and sales taxes on capital goods were removed.
•Moreover, Canada adopted more neutral capital cost allowances.
•Finally, the country scaled back special preferences under the corporate income tax.

Opponents argue that lowering the tax rate would also reduce the government's revenue. However, in Canada the governments lost hardly any revenue. Studies show that reducing corporate taxes boost domestic and foreign investments. Furthermore, lowering the tax rate to the world's average rate has the benefit of keeping the tax base and reducing profit shifting by multinational corporations.

In addition, studies show that combining cuts with a broadening of the base can prevent revenues from shrinking.