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Jim de Bree | Do Corporate Tax Cuts Really Benefit Workers?

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13.08.2026

Corporate tax cuts are a politically charged issue. Conservatives claim that most of the benefits of cutting corporate tax rates flowed to workers, while Bernie Sanders and those to the left of center claim the tax cuts were a gift to the rich. So, who’s right? 

It turns out the answer is more nuanced than the politicians would have you believe. 

Workers were supposed to benefit from both increased employment and increased pay. We are now in the ninth year of reduced corporate taxes and there is a considerable amount of data available to test that theory.  

According to the Tax Foundation, unincorporated businesses, who comprise over 90% of the American businesses, employed about 55% of private sector workers in 2015. Last February, the Tax Foundation published an updated study indicating that passthrough entities (which are not taxed as........

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