How Apple sidestepped a 2013 crackdown on its Irish tax practices

Re:How Apple sidestepped a 2013 crackdown on its Irish tax p... by DigitalJack on Monday November 06, 2017 @02:26PM (#15638212)

The entire and only purpose of laws and regulations is to dictate behaviors and punishments in a theoretically fair manner.

If a law is not broken, then any punishment would very likely be unfair as it would not be evenhanded in application.

I feel American political problems are rooted in having a professional political class, and a system in which politicians can enrich themselves by legislating.

If I were king, I would enact short term limits and regulation preventing any politician from increasing their networth while in office and for a period thereafter. Not applicable to myself of course.

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Re:How Apple sidestepped a 2013 crackdown on its Irish tax p... by tomxor on Monday November 06, 2017 @02:32PM (#15638283)

> If I were king, I would enact short term limits and regulation preventing any politician from increasing their networth while in office and for a period thereafter

As an aside... I can't see this ever working, it wouldn't prevent monetary bribery, it would just arbitrarily defer it. I suppose it would at least make it less attractive, but that is subjective.

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