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Re:Google used a tax loophole to shelter $19.2B by ghaff on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @06:11PM (#16056779)
>Paying as little taxes as possible to avoid jail is absolutely not the rational move for people or corporations.

Of course it is, and then both individuals and companies have the option to make voluntary payments as charitable contributions or to support local institutions--as many universities to to their municipalities.

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Re:Google used a tax loophole to shelter $19.2B by cryptoz on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @06:35PM (#16056962)
Charities are no replacement for a functioning democratic government. Charities do not build large scale infrastructure or keep populations safe or anything as powerful as a functioning government can do to lift citizens out of suffering and poverty.
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Re:Google used a tax loophole to shelter $19.2B by WalterBright on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @10:28PM (#16058081)
The US economy lifted scores of millions of people up from poverty into the middle class in the 1800's, long before government entitlement programs, welfare, and wars on poverty.

You can see it in the statistics on life expectancy, infant mortality, and average height.

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