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Let me ask you then, do you think it's right that the tax burden is on those locally-run frozen yogurt places, over the extremely well-off multinationals like A
by Frondo 11y ago
Let me ask you then, do you think it's right that the tax burden is on those locally-run frozen yogurt places, over the extremely well-off multinationals like Apple? Is that the way you want to see the world run?
- sigzero 11y agoI don't think he is saying that at all. Of course Apple is going to use every loophole they find. They are a business and that business is making money. The only way to fix it is to remove the loopholes.
- coldtea 11y ago>The only way to fix it is to remove the loopholes. Or you know, to have the people running the business have a sense of ethics.
- Frondo 11y agoWell, yeah. Like, if your company is headquartered in Cupertino, maybe then act like it when tax time comes and pay your US and California taxes. Setting up a nesting doll stack of shell corporations to dodge all that is, right now, legal, but is that the world I'd want to have a hand in building? Nope.
- hugh4 11y agoEthically your responsibility is to the shareholders who have given you their money to invest, not to some random government. The governments of the world aren't doing a good enough job with the money I'm already giving them for me to start thinking about donating more.
- fredoliveira 11y agoOf course I don't think it's right. I was only making the point of what they do is not skip paying taxes, but effectively trick the financial system into paying as little as they can.