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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo...Is it Un-American to purchase Apple products?
They have been using oversees cheap labor and now this Tax stuff...
Shouldn't boycott Apple as well?
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Yep! FU Apple! | |
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No! Apple products are too cool to give up. | |
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Yes...from here on out I will only obtain Apple products illegally. | |
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mike_c
(36,281 posts)Apple's tax evasion is entirely legal and consistent with the broad goals of capitalism and the ethics of greed. What could possibly be more American than that?
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)So I smarmily and smugly buy Android and Win-based things.
But at least my smarminess and smugosity aren't supporting tax dodgers and child laborers!
As far as I know.
And I ain't looking very far.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)smarminess and smugosity.
I'll go even further because I have a TracFone (I don't really need a super phone). Also, I like the term 'smugosity'.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)Smuggy solidarity forever!
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)If we stopped buying products based on who pays their fair share of taxes, I'd imagine there wouldn't be many products left to purchase.
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)Pragdem
(233 posts)Their desktops and notebooks are NOT the best on the market, so I would spend money elsewhere there.
And Samsung has produced a phone on par with the iPhone.
But there's nothing that compares to the iPod or iPad on the market, despite what people try to tell you.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)But I don't expect them to pay more taxes than legally required. That would simply make their products more expensive.
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