Tony Cooper wrote:

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.

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.

That is true, they are all as bad as each other, as are successive
governments, on both sides of the pond, that have encouraged, aided and
abetted this type of behaviour.

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

No, really, Tim a really nice bloke and he only wants to do what's right.

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sid