I think most of what's going to be said has been said here. However, one point sticks out at me: the Laffer curve.
Do you really believe that reducing corporate taxes to zero will increase tax revenue? That increasing taxes will reduce revenue? You say "it has been shown", but I don't think it actually has. There is a theoretical argument that, past a certain point, taxation reduces revenue, but we* do not appear to be near that point.
Now, any tax is going to change behaviour, so higher taxes will almost certainly means the government gets a larger 'slice' of a slightly smaller 'pie'. And lower taxes mean the pie will get slightly larger, at the cost of a substantially smaller government slice. But the slice itself is almost certainly going to be larger with higher taxes and smaller with lower: more taxes is more revenue. To assume otherwise is to assume you can have your cake and eat it too, and we all know that's a lie. ;)
-Jester
*we meaning any major western nation, especially but not only the US.
Do you really believe that reducing corporate taxes to zero will increase tax revenue? That increasing taxes will reduce revenue? You say "it has been shown", but I don't think it actually has. There is a theoretical argument that, past a certain point, taxation reduces revenue, but we* do not appear to be near that point.
Now, any tax is going to change behaviour, so higher taxes will almost certainly means the government gets a larger 'slice' of a slightly smaller 'pie'. And lower taxes mean the pie will get slightly larger, at the cost of a substantially smaller government slice. But the slice itself is almost certainly going to be larger with higher taxes and smaller with lower: more taxes is more revenue. To assume otherwise is to assume you can have your cake and eat it too, and we all know that's a lie. ;)
-Jester
*we meaning any major western nation, especially but not only the US.