Bryan Caplan también critica los argumentos anti-corporación de Roderick Long (1, 2 y 3). En particular me quedo con su referencia a la doble tributación, que mencioné en esta entrada como un ejemplo de intervencionismo que perjudica a las corporaciones más que a los demás tipos de organizaciones. Especial atención a los datos en negrita (énfasis mío):
While we're on the subject of differential tax treatment, I don't think Rod or his critics ever mentions the notorious double taxation imposed by the corporate income tax. This tax matters less than it used to, but the U.S. federal government still gets 15% of its revenue from it. That's about $375 B. Except for the year of the bail-out, it would be very hard for all corporate welfare combined to approach this figure.
(...) The main effect (...) is that we discourage corporations when they are more efficient than other forms of organization. This reduces productivity, which in turn hurts consumers.
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