You have to talk their language when they control information to the public.

Shut down the loopholes and make them pay.

Some thoughts about taxing corporations:

We want corporations investing in the things that employ Americans - Can the tax code encourage this behavior? If so how?

How do you capture the profits made by U.S. companies operating in foreign countries? Do you want to heavily tax the value added for the products that are exported? I think not.

Can you even realistically capture the profits of corporations who operate and sell outside of the U.S. Should those taxes be better paid by the owners of the corporations as personal taxes? Every few years this issue of bringing profits back to the U.S. and taxing them comes up. The push is always on lowering the tax rate in a one time deal to get the profits back into the U.S. This is an insane way to run the tax code.

Corporations benefit from being able to be listed on the NYSE etc since this gives them access to the greatest capital market in the world. Can this value be captured in taxes?

What benefits do U.S. corporations gain from being incorporated in the U.S. and being subject to our tax laws? One obviously is our military presence which helps to ensure that their foreign investments/markets are protected. The collorary to this is obviously that foreign companies also benefit from this protection including the access to our markets.

Remember some facts about taxes.
1. You have no way of taxing a foreign company with foreign owners operating in another country. What if a "U.S." company decides to decamp from the U.S. and operate its corporation on a foreign shore?
2. It is very difficult to tax income derived in foreign countries even by U.S. corporations.
3. Corporate taxes immediately allows an out to any investor who can claim double taxation even though a good chunk of those profits for various reasons are never subjected to U.S. taxes.

One proposal is to drop corporate taxes but raise dividend and capital gains tax rates. Another possibility is to recognize that tariffs are actually a good thing when they are structured to benefit our national interests. Also why do we spend so much money on defense to protect these markets when it just leads to an overwhelming trade deficit and oil priced at levels that does not reflect its cost.

issue affecting our society and the well-being of tens of millions of Americans lwho live in poverty, without jobs, shelter, food, and/or access to health care. For the sake of God, please remove these burdensome tax rates from the backs of large, profitable large corporations that pay little or no Federal income taxes so that this most urgent of societal burdens can be eradicated and forever laid to rest.

lowering rates. He said the same thing in the last two state of the union addresses.

given that corporations are persons now, shouldn't they being pay personal income taxes.