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> Taxes and morality have nothing to do with each other Bullshit, the concept of fairness is a universal moral.

• gozur88 11y ago
  The concept of fairness is so subjective it's meaningless in the context of morality. Decrying something as being "unfair" is childish.
  • supercanuck 11y ago
    Right.. nothing subjective about tax: The report found that Irish officials essentially “reverse-engineered” Apple’s tax bill by first discussing with company representatives the size of the profit they wanted from the Irish branch. Apple’s own tax adviser acknowledged there was “no scientific basis” for the figures, the report said. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/01/business/international/european-commission-report-warns-ireland-over-tax-treatment-of-apple.html http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/01/business/international/eur...
    • gozur88 11y ago
      Of course there's something subjective about tax. That was my whole point. I'm going to assume you meant "objective" so your post makes sense. There's nothing objective the concept of fairness, particularly when it comes to taxes. Taxes are almost completely arbitrary, depending more on what the government in question thinks it can actually collect than anything else. It's pretty easy to make the case corporations shouldn't be taxed at all. A corporation is nothing more than a group of people that have pooled their resources to make money, after all, and they're already taxed as individuals when profits are disbursed. How is that fair?