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Just because you cannot precisely identify the location of an electron, that does not imply that it does not exist.

• stouset 10y ago
  In fact, an electron does not have a precise location. We can, however, detect electrons' presence based on their observed effects. There are no equivalent "observed effects" of some hypothetical "just" amount that Facebook should owe to the IRS.
• jerf 10y ago
  Tax law is so complicated and vague that there isn't even an objective measure of what an individual owes, let alone a corporation. There's a lot of discretion in the deductions. I believe over the past ~10 years the IRS has really been cracking down on home office deductions, for instance, and it was all interpretation of existing laws, not new ones. And that's just one example.