If businesses say a tax cut doesn't help them, that is an argument for the tax cut, because businesses get most excited about cuts on activities they are already doing (infra-marginal), which create no new behavior; whereas a cut that businesses are indifferent about may produce large consumer benefits by shifting behavior at low cost.
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“if businesses say that a tax cut doesn't help them that's an argument for the tax cut”
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