2) they will accept the fact that billions of dollars in revenue is not needed in order to make a decent profit and will adjust their records/books/investments accordingly.
False statement. Billions of dollars of revenue may very well be needed to make a decent profit, or any profit at all, depending on the way you have to divvy up the pie. To build a company's infrastructure you need a building and equipment. You might need literally hundreds of workers depending on what you do. Then there are ancillary support services. (E.g. a contract for delivery with FedEx, UPS, WorldWide, or SOMEBODY just to name one possible ancillary service). Then there are such things that if we export the USA model, we also export the idea of benefits. You start spreading around a billion dollars and you might suddenly find that
in a truly level playing field, it doesn't go that far. That's one of the quarrels we have right now regarding trade with China. They manipulate their own currency to undercut the value of our trade contracts.
You bemoan the fact of people overthinking things. Your problem is that you badly
severely egregiously underthink things. You show NO COMPREHENSION of the workings of big business. The issues of something simple, like a value-added tax would, upon contemplation, show you how compound interest through just a few layers of manufacturing will make costs jump like crazy. Since there is no such thing as a free lunch, those costs HAVE to be paid (or someone down the line WON'T be paid and will starve.)