So the corporations don't want to pay taxes on infrastructure. Likely because

[applegrove]

they want it all privatized. They were talking about infrastructure on Bill Maher. Apparently the USA only spends 2.6% of government spending on infrastructure while in Europe that number is 5%, and in China 9%.

I'm sure American corporations don't want to be paying for infrastructure around the world. Just like they don't want to be spending for health care around the world in all the countries they do business in. So as the world will go (taxation-wise to American corporations in their neocon dreams) so goes America.

[Ilsa]

1. And corps are some of the biggest users of infrastructure.

They don't want to help pay for public schools which provide them with an educated work force. They don't want to be taxed for the hospital district even those those emergency departments treat any employees hurt on the job.

The list of corporate use of the commons is long.

And for transportation infrastructure, I think you are spot on. Ours needs a lot of replacing, too.

[SharonAnn]

2. They demand that you pay for the insfrastrucutre they want. The rail spur, the lock,

the highway exit/entrance, etc.

They don't want to pay for any of it, but it almost exclusively benefits them.

[applegrove]

3. Some of the corporations have decoupled from infrastructure though. Think

intellectual property peddlars. But the other corporations yeah. They need highways.

[soryang]

4. They don't want to pay taxes for anything

Only we the peons pay.

The infrastructure is a joke at this point. You could pay the highway program for entire state with the cost of one jet fighter or one day of war.

[applegrove]

5. I wonder what the percentage change has been in the dependance of corporations

on local infrastructure in the USA. I mean microsoft requires very little infrastructure. Big Pharma a little more.