Re:138 Billion Units (Apple's Cash Position)
by davidw on Monday March 19, 2012 @06:04AM
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The point you're missing is that taking money from Apple takes money from plenty of people who are not wealthy.
If you want to tax redistributively, you should tax the people who actually have the money, not companies. If the company mostly belongs to the "uber wealthy", then they'll get taxed anyway. If it's mostly in the hands of grannies of modest means with a few shares each, then they won't, which is a lot fairer.
If you want to tax redistributively, you should tax the people who actually have the money, not companies. If the company mostly belongs to the "uber wealthy", then they'll get taxed anyway. If it's mostly in the hands of grannies of modest means with a few shares each, then they won't, which is a lot fairer.