Tim Cook tells Congress why Apple won’t move $100 billion back home

Re: Tim Cook tells Congress why Apple won’t move $100 billio... by nknighthb on Friday May 24, 2013 @04:46AM (#5761839)

> why shouldn't US Corporations be required to Pay US Taxes on their income, wherever they make it?

Because the law doesn't say they have to. That's enough for me.

I'm a left-wing, pro-high-tax guy, but I can never understand people who get angry at corporations for obeying the law. Besides being nonsensical, it's actively counter-productive. So long as people are focusing their attention on the corporations, nobody is pressuring the politicians to fix the actual problem.

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Re: Tim Cook tells Congress why Apple won’t move $100 billio... by venomsnake on Friday May 24, 2013 @06:08AM (#5762013)

That will be true if corporations were forbade to enter the political debate at all.

But a corporation obeying a law they helped draft, lobbied for, water down, or prevented from changing is somewhat different in my opinion.

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Re: Tim Cook tells Congress why Apple won’t move $100 billio... by ghshephard on Friday May 24, 2013 @06:12AM (#5762020)

Let me be more clear, "Why shouldn't the law require US corporations to pay US taxes on their income, wherever they make it?"

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