As long as all their competitors are subject to the same tax, the price simply rises. This is why Apple products cost much more in the EU. Of course, if it were cheaper for a company to be located somewhere where they would not be subject to that tax, then you're simply just motivating them to relocate.
I am referring to this: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/02/apples-cash-hoard-swells-to-...
Companies should not be allowed to simply hang on to 250 billion dollars.
Imagine what could be done in science, infrastructure, services etc if 10% of that money went towards those things.
There's a great Peter Thiel clip about this that sums it up very well:
Why? They earned it. And have you seen how much Apple donates to charities? Bill Gates at one point had a net worth of over 100 billion dollars before donating a huge sum to charity. If 250 billion is too much, what is a good amount?
As long as people are ok with their money going into a mystery box they have no control over, holding no one accountable, how can we have anything BUT inequality?
As long as companies are free to play tax games and suck money out of the economy and then hang on to it for as long as they feel like it - how can we have anything BUT a screwed up volatile economy?
People talk about redistributing money as if there's a million rich people wiping their butts with 100$ bills and if only we could teleport that money outta their toilets, into the hands of those in need, we'd solve something.
Real solutions to real problems come with infrastructure, accountability, transparency.
They start in the mind, then go out into the real world. As long as in your mind it's republican vs democrat, rich vs poor or some other childish false dichotomy, we'll be right where we are, heading for serious social unrest.