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Re:Apple plans new U.S. campus, to pay $38B in foreign cash ... by IBM on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @09:19PM (#16174116)
I think it's fine to view taxes that way, but we should also realize that to a business taxes are a cost to be minimized. No for-profit business willingly conducts their affairs to maximize taxes.

We live in a rules based system and the rules should be designed to incentivize the behaviors we want. Expecting any business to deviate from whats in their best interest is just... out of touch with reality.

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Re:Apple plans new U.S. campus, to pay $38B in foreign cash ... by burnallofit on Friday January 19, 2018 @05:35PM (#16190540)
Many public corporations want to (indirectly) maximize taxes. That's because taxes are levied on profits, and maximizing profits to increase share value is often a good thing.
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Re:Apple plans new U.S. campus, to pay $38B in foreign cash ... by rhizome on Thursday January 18, 2018 @12:13AM (#16174868)
What's good for America is good for General Motors.
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Re:Apple plans new U.S. campus, to pay $38B in foreign cash ... by fjsolwmv on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @09:42PM (#16174215)
That's been repeated ad nauseum and isn't relevant to this discussion. Parent was replying to someone who said "punitive".
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