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  • Ireland's Sinn Fein party says it will pursue Apple if company owes back taxes

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    cnocbui said:
    jdgaz said:
    All taxes are in the end paid by the consumer in the cost of goods.
    No they aren't.

    However, all taxes that multinational corporations dodge are eventually made up for by increases in taxes and charges levied on consumers.
    Taxes paid by a company increase that company's costs. To make a profit (the only way a company can stay in business) they have to raise prices to their customers to cover the additional cost of taxes.

    So yes, whether additional taxes are levied directly on consumers, or via higher product prices, consumers wind up paying all taxes in the end.
    suddenly newton

  • Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton says Apple's Tim Cook 'omitted critical facts' in encryption stance

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    macsimcon said:

    If you'll pardon me for saying so, that's a false equivalency. Republican presidents started the first gulf war, and the second, which by the way is the longest war in American history. It was a Republican president who created DHS, and who greatly expanded the power of the NSA. It was a Republican president who invaded a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. It was a Republican president who caused the creation of Al Qaeda, and a different Republican president who caused the creation of ISIS/ISIL/Daesh. Democrats are not just as guilty as Republicans, they simply clean up the messes left behind by Republicans.
    I'm not willing to pardon you for such willful inaccuracy. For example, the first Gulf War was not started by Republicans, it was started by Saddam Hussein invading Kuwait. And ISIS was formed in the power vacuum formed by Obama's removal of Gaddafi.
    tallest skil

  • Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton says Apple's Tim Cook 'omitted critical facts' in encryption stance

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    mac_128 said:
    this guys is dangerous. For those who have forgotten, he essentially committed treason by co-authoring the letter telling Iran that any deal they struck with President would be reversed by congress as soon Obama leaves office.
    Um, you do realize that the Constitution requires Senate approval for treaties, don't you?

    He [the President] shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur;
     — U. S. Constitution, Article II, Section 2, Paragraph 3

    That said, Cotton is simply wrong on this point. Even by his own statement, he showed that Tim Cook did not leave anything out. You can either leave a back door open, or you can't. There is no such thing as a "government only back door".
    lostkiwi