In article , Tony Cooper
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numerous other companies do essentially the same thing, including
google, yahoo, cisco and amazon.

It's amazing how often you seem to think two wrongs make a right.

This is typical nospam. Say anything that he thinks is "bashing"
Apple, and he immediately wants to know why you haven't also bashed
anyone from Google to Nabisco to your local children's day care
center.

why single out apple when plenty of other companies do the same thing?

the answer is because it's the usual apple bashing, with you at the
forefront.

if someone posted that tax laws need to be changed, this would be a
very different discussion. instead, it's apple is a scammer while all
of the other companies get a free pass for doing the *same thing*.

even ordinary taxpayers, including yourself, pays as little tax as
possible.

Ordinary tax payers get told how much they have to pay and that's that.
Multi national corporations have unimaginable amounts of money to spend on
tax dodgers to work the best scams they can. Not really comparable.

unlike the other companies, however, apple wants to change the the tax
laws so that they're more fair, where they can repatriate the money.
that means they will pay *more* taxes than they currently are, just not
the absurd amounts that the current tax law requires.

That sounds like it is written by someone in the market for a bridge.
Yeah, right, Apple is working diligently to figure out ways to pay
more in taxes. They have a whole department of accountants and
shareholder representatives devoted to ways to reduce their bottom
line.

you're ignorant.

apple has repeatedly said they want to change the existing tax laws so
that they can repatriate their assets, something which will result in
paying more tax than they currently are paying.

do you hear marissa saying she wants to change the tax laws? nope.

If they actually gave two ****s for anything other than the amount of money
they can accumulate they would already be paying taxes at the same rate as
all the other honest companies in the countries in which they extract
exorbitant amounts of money from their customer base.

I think Apple is as honest as any other large corporation. All they're
doing is paying the taxes that the tax laws require them to pay.

exactly, which is completely legal and expected of any corporation,
large or small.

To
think they'd like to pay more, though, is the thinking of a demented
fool.

call tim cook and tell him that he's a demented fool.

apple's main phone number 408-996-1010, ask for tim cook's office. i'm
sure they'll put you right through.

This is not a "bash" of Apple.

of course it's a bash of apple.

any time anyone singles out apple for doing what other companies do is
apple bashing.

the problem is the tax code, not what apple is doing.

nospam will argue that it is, though,
because he argues with every post.

you have that backwards.

bashing is all *you* do and *you* are the one who argues with every
post, even though in this case, you are agreeing with what apple is
doing.

that's ****ed up.