How Apple Sidesteps Billions in Taxes (3,830 words)

Apple is the top dog, so mediocre tech companies (all the rest) are less interesting in headlines.

Please point us the legal statue stipulating that.

Thanks in advance.

You know, Tesha, that argument doesn't fly when Halliburton does it. It doesn't fly when Walmart does it.

It doesn't fly when Apple does it.

If that is truly what corporations are about then let's get to the point -- they need to end.

It doesn't matter what shiny i-doo-dad you worship, it's just wrong if that's the point.

I accused you of nothing. I asked you a question.

That would make virtually all Corporate Social Responsibility policies and programmes unlawful.

Good one!

That's the usual response from this one when the advertising jingle gets skewered by cold, hard logic.

Your description of the "responsibilities" of corporations and how those responsibilities do not extend to the society that gave the corporation "life" sounds like the gushing praise that Rand heaped on William Hickmann the serial killer. In short, your claims that corporations should only exist to do the bidding of the shareholders make them sound rather sociopathic. I don't like sociopaths -- their self interest is at odds with my continued health and well being.

A corporation in your view, like a shark, is merely a force of nature meant to make money and return it to a small group of investors. If it stole MY tax dollars to get started and then ran overseas before paying back the coffers or it gouges me with monopolistic practices or pollutes the gulf or becomes a band of mercenaries or exploits workers or screws people out of their retirements it's okay right? It's all because they exist to make a profit and nothing else.

You are forgetting the laws of society. Sadly, megacorporations seem to be able to buy those. After reading your collected works I understand that you do seem to consider the Corporation to be the replacement for the state -- a Phillip K. Dick future for us all I guess. You have often times waxed poetic about Apple going global and becoming a true transnational -- moving its manufacturing to its "new market" as "American exceptionalism" declines.

Sociopathic to say the least.