Heads we win Tails you loose - American Corporates.We win. If we are in lockdown, we can simply stop buying. We don't need all the extra junk corporations make for us. If we don't buy, they die.
It's the same when you talk about taxing the wealthy. They simply pass their tax on to us by increasing prices. In this CV case, we pass our poverty on to them in the form of not buying their products.