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How Apple avoids paying taxes in CA

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Re: How Apple avoids paying taxes in CA

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

While we might be able to justify one person paying orders of magnitude more taxes than another, based on the overall benefit to society as a whole, let's not pervert language by describing that system as 'fair'. In fair systems, people get the same service for the same price.

Yeah, and in an anarchic system, power and money flow upwards until it's unsustainable and it collapses. We're not living in caves, definitions of fair should include upward mobility. And who says they're not getting the same service? Wealthy corporations and individuals get a ton of services from the US gov't, from subsidies to infrastructure to direct benefit from the State Dept and military.

We're not living in caves, definitions of fair should include upward mobility.

Are we talking absolute upward mobility, or relative upward mobility? If absolute, then we already have that. If relative, that's impossible...not everyone can be simultaneously relatively upwardly mobile :)

Re: How Apple avoids paying taxes in CA

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Seems like a smart business move to me. Are we suppose to be upset about this?

many would consider it unethical

many would say that just because one is involved in a business activity does not exempt one from being ethical. regardless of what some piece of paper says.

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