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> Making companies pay their legally required tax bill is not 'taking'. It's just making them follow the spirit of the law. They are following the law though.
by matt_wulfeck 11y ago
> Making companies pay their legally required tax bill is not 'taking'. It's just making them follow the spirit of the law.
They are following the law though. It's the law that allows this. If you create more laws that disencentive the behavior people will just find more loopholes.
spirit of the law is meaningless here. Generally we don't consider anything illegal unless it is actually illegal. Are you following the spirit of the tax law when you itemize your deductions and get a nice tax break?
- ksdale 11y agoExactly! There is no "spirit" of the law. You don't give someone a speeding ticket for going 25 in a 25 because the spirit of the law is that they should be going slow.
- darawk 11y agoI wasn't making a moral argument about the companies themselves. They are following the law, and that's fine. But the authors of the law did not intend for things like corporate inversions to be used to avoid tax bills. Again, this is not a moral judgment of the company. It's simply a flawed law. The law was poorly written and these companies have exploited that. That's ok, but we should fix the law.