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Re:A Message to the Apple Community in Europe by themihai on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @10:10AM (#12390283)
> Why is it unfair? You're automatically jumping to the assumption that individual people should pay the same tax rate as a corporation.

I didn't say that corporations should be the same tax as individuals. I've said that's unfair for Apple to pay less tax than any other EU corporation/company. How can you compete with Apple if they pay no tax and your start-up pays 20% ? How could Apple have succeeded if they were to pay 20% tax and all the others (i.e. IBM) was to pay no tax?

> What about the notion that corporations should pay no tax at all, and the only taxes should be on individuals.

That would be basically slavery of foreign people(not nice).

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Re:A Message to the Apple Community in Europe by bluedevil2k on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @12:46PM (#12391694)
Slavery? That's quite a jump of thought from tax policy. Maybe you should reconsider your statement
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Re:A Message to the Apple Community in Europe by themihai on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @02:50PM (#12392799)
The burden of the taxes they don't pay winds up on others, who have to make up the difference. What is when you are forced to work for a powerful company that pays you nothing? Extortion, fraud?
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