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Re:People Don’t Actually Want Equality, They Want Fairness by alexashka on Sunday September 10, 2017 @10:34PM (#15215507)
It's not so much about tax rates and I haven't looked into it too deeply - although I'm sure the big companies hire the best accountants to use every loophole in existence.

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:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q26XIKtwXQ

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Re:People Don’t Actually Want Equality, They Want Fairness by colejohnson66 on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @04:22PM (#15232113)
> Conpanies should not be allowed to hang on to 250 billion dollars.

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?

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