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  • Bernie Sanders bemoans Apple's overseas supply chain, tax avoidance strategy

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    wizard69 said:
    Who are you to decide what is fair and why, though?
    A fair share is just that. For example personal income might be taxed at 15% for everybody, that is a fair share as each and everyone pays the same percentage of their income to the tax man. Once you start to add arbitrary tax brackets the system becomes unfair. when I say everybody I mean everybody pays the same tax rate be you the local high school janitor or the head of Apple. The same thing goes for business tax them all at the same rate and make sure all of them pay taxes at that rate. Get rid of all of the exceptions, special cases and the non sense congress spend months building into the tax laws each year. It isn't a question of deciding what is fair that is already known if you have had any sort of reasonable upbringing. Consider a birthday cake, do you cut the slices in reasonably closely sized cubes or do you vary the size of the slices to make sure your friends get the bigger pieces? Most people would consider making the slices the same size fair, anything else is biased.


    Tax brackets are not necessary unfair. Further, they have been in place almost since the founding of the tax code. 


    A fact of the matter is people with higher income have better deductions, have means to keep their money in places with little to no tax, and have benefited from the system more. 

    15 percent to somebody who makes twenty thousand a year is far more painful then to somebody who makes a hundred thousand a year. 

    When I cut a cake, I cut the cake based on the person I am cutting it for. For myself, I cut the smallest piece [assuming there isn't enough to go around]. Biases are not inherently bad. 
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  • Bernie Sanders bemoans Apple's overseas supply chain, tax avoidance strategy

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    brian davis said:
    Bernie Sander's opinion is pretty much idiotic when his solution is to increase corporate tax rates to 50%.    You want to see companies keep their money over seas... vote Bernie because nobody will ever want to bring their money home with his tax plans to screw over businesses.  


    Get rid of Free Trade Agreements and tax imports and they will have no choice but to bring the money home. 



    With that said, while I admire Bernie, the problem is really with the government. The government's job is to pass laws. If governments don't like a practice, pass a law to change it. 

    Apple has had its tax practices in place for twenty years. While it is clear the practice is to avoid paying taxes, it isn't illegal. 
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  • Apple files amicus brief supporting EPA's Clean Power Plan

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    koop said:
    :clears throat: *Lets get political, political.*

    Can't wait for the Apple fans who cannot wrap their ahead around the fact they support a liberal company with a liberal CEO.
    Yes, because wanting clean air is a liberal position. 
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  • Judge orders Apple to access iPhone belonging to San Bernardino shooter [u]

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    jimngo said:
    ericthehalfbee said:
    "provide specialized software" sure sounds like demanding a back door. I don't see how a local judge even has the authority to make such a demand. 
    A federal appointed judge? You bet they have such authority. This is why it's a lifetime appointment.
    It was a federal magistrate. They have an eight year appointment. They are not appointed for life. 
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  • Apple Maps vans operating around the clock in run-up to 'iOS 10' debut

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    I've seen Apple Maps four times in the last two months. 

    I dont use Street View (or Google Maps), so I hope Apple has something better up its sleeve.
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