frankie

fallenjt said:

and who the fuck cares? So, if Apple buy battery from this manufacturer, Apple are responsible for their labor hires? What the fcuk is that? If I eat rice imported from Vietnam, I'm responsible for these 12-14 year-old farmers who work 10 hrs+ a day back in the countryside in Vietnam? BS.

digitalclips said:

Maybe if Apple could bring home the money that it already paid all the legal taxes on overseas and was not facing double taxation if they did, they just might manufacture more here.  IDK, just a thought.  I stand ready to be flamed as it's not a subject I know much about.

williamh said:

I don't appreciate how the author refers to Apple's "tax dodges."  The clearly has a negative connotation when Apple did NOTHING WRONG.  Apple received tax incentives from the Irish government.  If any party did something wrong, it was the Irish government and, if wrong, they should be sanctioned for it.  

Apple can't undo having set up operations in Ireland premised on those incentives.  Apple kept their end of the bargain. The problem is these overspending governments looking for any possible source of funding to put off the inevitable reckoning that will come.

redraider11 said:

Oh government, they can't produce anything of their own so they use threat of force to steal money from people and corporations. 

Apple among hundreds of other businesses pretending to be based overseas, along with most billionaires, should never have be able to do the accounting tricks they do anyway. 

But then I would guess you're fine with them not paying the same rates as the rest of us.

tallest skil said:

frankie said:

Please provide the last time the GOP cut government.   This tired lie in done.

So we stop voting for RINOs. What’s the problem? You really want to pretend that an ideology doesn’t exist because people who lie about having the ideology refuse to abide by it?

Government isn't the problem, Billionaires BUYING the government to work for them and not us IS.