Gear88 said:
My problem with businesses these days is that they are driven by a profit-oriented (aka capitalistic) mindset, at the expense of people. Most of them, especially the bigger ones, pose a threat to society by creating unemployment and treating employees like slaves. An example of this is Amazon, which pays little but has ridiculous targets. Not to mention, night shifts that incompatible with the human circadian rhythm. Night shifts should be done by robots for nearly every job except guarding duties. Taxes to businesses may be too much right now but bigger businesses deserve them fully.
I would turn surplus taxes into fines that would be enforced in case:
:arrow: businesses imported from abroad, to avoid paying employees what they are due;
:arrow: businesses created jobs abroad, for the very same reason;
:arrow: businesses created trusts to escape the right amount of taxes due as in the USA, for example, trusts are used so that businesses can pay taxes AFTER expenses when they should be paying them BEFORE. This leads to declaring an income lower than what they actually have, which is how in many places trustees and their families become welfare scams, taking welfare benefits that should be going to people who actually need them;
:arrow: businesses enforced more than 4-5 hours of work a day, which is usually incompatible with most people's work-life balance;
:arrow: businesses refused to pay those 4-5 hours the same total wage they would pay for 8-9 hours nowadays;
:arrow: businesses refused to pay their employees the minimum wage for job role (yes, a minimum wage should be established by the government based on role and merit, since most businesses have proven to take advantage of employees while hoarding too much for executive positions);
:arrow: businesses required higher qualifications than what's needed for a job vacancy or privileged candidates with higher qualifications that what's required for said vacancy;
:arrow: businesses force or pressure people into working overtime or night shifts;
:arrow: businesses give less than 2x the regular hourly wage for voluntary overtime shifts (charged by the quarter of hour);
:arrow: businesses terminate someone's contract of employment based on their private beliefs expressed outside of working hours and outside the working space;
:arrow: businesses discipline or fire someone for normal office banter, instead of finding more appropriate solutions in case someone's mental health was actually at risk;
:arrow: businesses that bully or harass other businesses into a merger, acquisition, dissolution, false testimonials, and so on;
:arrow: businesses who bully or harass other citizens;
:arrow: businesses (only those above a certain size) not providing an appropriate amount and quality of benefits/compensation package to their employees (this should, of course, include paid days supporting legitimate charities and similar philanthropic bodies in fundraising activities);
:arrow: businesses promoting anti-human agendas (these, rather than fined should be thoroughly investigated and have the promoters removed from the business and incarcerated, as well as non-contributory pension schemes);
:arrow: businesses who otherwise commit a disservice to the country (its citizens).
All this is done to protect the citizens from slavery (which is what most jobs are today), unemployment, negative interference, and to help them progress, which is the role of the state.