Apple plans new U.S. campus, to pay $38B in foreign cash taxes

Re:Apple plans new U.S. campus, to pay $38B in foreign cash ... by rdtsc on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @10:23PM (#16174413)

Walmart is not the only company which gave bonuses. AT&T did the same. Apple gave employees $2500. Overall that is a quite a bit of people who got something they probably would not have gotten otherwise. Yeah, it would be nice to have free healthcare, basic income other things. But to someone making minimum age $1000 is a nice holiday gift. Why not be happy for them?

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Re:Apple plans new U.S. campus, to pay $38B in foreign cash ... by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @11:16PM (#16174651)

I'm pretty sure no one who was making minimum wage got a $1000 bonus (including at Walmart, who would be making min wage after being there for 20 years? Sounds like a store manager or district sup to me). So I'm not happy for them because they don't exist.

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Re:Apple plans new U.S. campus, to pay $38B in foreign cash ... by rdtsc on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @11:31PM (#16174720)

AT&T claimed that it paid the bonus to 200k employees https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/20/tax-reform-reaction-att-is-g...

They have a total of about 250k employees worldwide: https://www.att.com/Common/about_us/pdf/att_btn.pdf.

Pretty sure there 80% of their workforce are not district supervisors and store managers.

Comcast said it paid the bonus to 100k employees "that are eligible and not in executive roles".

> So I'm not happy for them because they don't exist.

Good news, I think I found them!

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Re:Apple plans new U.S. campus, to pay $38B in foreign cash ... by seanmcdirmid on Thursday January 18, 2018 @12:50AM (#16174997)

I’m pretty sure AT&T and Comcast don’t employ many min wage workers, especially not like Walmart does, if any at all.

> Comcast said it paid the bonus to 100k employees "that are eligible and not in executive roles".

But neither did they say they were making min wage. And then ...

> Good news, I think I found them!

You aren’t making a valid inference here, it honestly feels like something Trump would claim.

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Re:Apple plans new U.S. campus, to pay $38B in foreign cash ... by rdtsc on Thursday January 18, 2018 @12:00PM (#16178664)

> I’m pretty sure AT&T and Comcast don’t employ many min wage workers, especially not like Walmart does, if any at all.

AT&T has a lot of door-to-door people: technicians, sales "consultants". Also people in call centers. Those are a lot closer to minimum wage than what you are implying - that only managers and big wigs got those bonuses.

> You aren’t making a valid inference here

The claim was you couldn't be happy for them because basically only managers got those. I did some legwork and found that it's probably not true. You were looking for a reason to cheer and be happy for them, so I found one.

> it honestly feels like something Trump would claim.

I usually prefer a conversational style with exclamation points and allegories. But I think you're not in the mood for that. Sorry, I should be more formal perhaps.

Also not sure why we are talking about Trump?. But since you brought him up (invoked the Devil's name!). Do you think he is responsible for these tax cuts and the bonuses or it is mostly a charade?

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