They should pay for everything. They take the biggest cut of the pie.
They aren't going to survive the Google Age without transitioning into 100% tyranny. And many of those cops that you want to keep armed won't survive, either.
When the information was slower, the myth was easier to sustain. No longer the case.
So I get the "logic" you buy, I just wish I could help you see the problem with it.
"Corporations" are people. I mean someone owns them, and for most of our large corporations, a lot of people have their retirement invested in them. Sure there are the few individual investors with relatively large share holdings.
And, at least since the 70's, the trending mode of thought in corporate management has been heavily weighted towards "Shareholder Value", meaning they do stuff to pump the value of the shares, try to keep the stock price high..... as opposed to use sound long-term management strategies. Short term vision is one of our national weaknesses, compared.... say...., to Chinese management strategies which often show a longer-term emphasis. We fail to invest much in R&D, and instead focus on political influence to secure cartel scale dominance in business. We run competitors.... little upstart endeavors, outta town using government regulations they just can "buy" out, like the larger corporates do regularly.
Unless you actually have nothing, and no job..... or even if you have a government job.... you can't just take down our corporations without being self-destructive.
The logic that makes "Corporations" a kind of "other" you could really consider an enemy, doesn't even hold for welfare recipients. Why? Because it's the WalMarts and Targets and other big box stores where you get your cheap slave-labor imported goods.... you know.... the stuff Americans used to make and sell at more expensive prices. The WalMarts ran out all the local producers and retailers, and now they are the folks who lobby for the Dems, for the politicians on every side of our political dog & pony show, to keep the unwashed masses flush with spending cash to drop off at their stores.
The equation boils down to this. The Bigs want you to have just enough to spend to keep their business profitable. They are willing to milk the American public and squeeze out a survival rate "guaranteed income", sucked outta mostly the small business/middle class/government employee class, while they know how to avoid being taxed so much themselves.
The whole system is gonna fail eventually, maybe fairly soon. Smartass hotshot politicians cluck "The problem with socialism is sooner or later you run outta other peoples' money."
The clear solution to it all is not to just damn the corporates and business impossible, not to have the state just operate all the business, but to get the government out of business.
People set up businesses or corporations to enable operations they don't want to have in their own name legally because it exposes them to personal risk. And business/corporations enable a number of methods for investment or borrowing which gives people a possibility of participating somehow in the profit. Those are good things. They enable us to function in better ways, more efficient ways.
It would be better if we could eliminate the "special" channels of disproportionate influence the truly wealthy folks use to buy out our government officials and feather their own nests, so to speak. That would require stuff like laws, and ethics, against influence peddling that could just give ordinary people a fair say in their government.
I think to do that, we have to have an open economic playing field..... with justice, liberty, equality..... **** like that. Idealistic **** maybe, but if we can't manage to create and enforce laws that make it real, we just can't expect anyone to really have any rights. It all goes to "Arrogance of Power". I guess it's the same thing as the "Golden Rule" perversion which maintains "Them's that's got the gold make the rules". I call that corruption.
Funny thing about all that..... damnable thing about all that..... is just that if we don't believe in, and maintain higher ethics in our own conduct.... if people don't themselves hold principles like that in their own affairs.... we can hardly hope our government will.
Taxing the Corporations, and buying into the guaranteed income idea, won't change any of that.
In fact, it is simply turning ourselves in to the government camps, or reservations, like the Plains Indians did, for a future of starvation on the government dole, with no rights to access opportunity or resources..
If we want opportunity, and access to the resources of this world, little folks need cops to enforce the laws that give them the rights.
