Originally Posted by pondering_it_all
Simple: The citizens of a country should own some percentage of the country's industry. They have been doing that in Alaska for some time now. Some people are not very smart, so you have to prevent them from selling their share. Just tax every company a small percentage of their gross and we have the money to distribute the dividends.

But we do need to do this on a world-wide basis to prevent companies from moving to countries without the tax.

But.. But... PIA what you're suggesting sounds so dangerously close to the S word shhhhh ThumbsUp Socialism

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