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Re:Apple’s Tim Cook: The Full D11 Interview [video] by wdr1 on Wednesday May 29, 2013 @11:37PM (#5790765)
> intentionally evades taxes, almost to a cowardly degree in fact.

To a "cowardly" degree? What does that even mean?

This tech witchhunt over companies not paying optional taxes is getting pretty crazy. How long before it becomes "cowardly" to use the deduction on mortgage payments or medical expenses?

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Re:Apple’s Tim Cook: The Full D11 Interview [video] by twoodfin on Wednesday May 29, 2013 @11:46PM (#5790796)
Attempts to limit high earners' use of deductions like that for home mortgage interest are already routinely described as "closing loopholes" in the language of much of the media and the Democratic party.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/sequester/the-presidents-pl...

Limit tax deductions to 28% for the wealthiest and close other loopholes.

I won't even start on the deliberate confusion here between "high income" and "wealthy".

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Re:Apple’s Tim Cook: The Full D11 Interview [video] by wdr1 on Thursday May 30, 2013 @02:05AM (#5791171)
Yet, I bet every Democratic Senator still takes that deduction.

So if they feel what Apple is doing is "legal, but immoral", tell me, if these Senators believe the mortgage deduction is "legal, but immoral", why do they continue to exploit it themselves?

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