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Google Lowered 2015 Taxes by $3.6B Using ‘Dutch Sandwich’

22 points by paglia_s 10y ago

ocdtrekkie 10y ago
If a key part of your business strategy involves moving your money to an offshore bank account, you're probably a criminal organization.
- benchaney 10y ago
  That isn't even close to a true statement.
  - PhantomGremlin 10y ago
    You're correct from the perspective of a lawyer or pedant. The GP is correct from the perspective of the common man.
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- anthony-james 10y ago
  If a key part of your organizational strategy is to tax companies more than your peers and get sad when they leave, you're probably the United States government.
jgalt212 10y ago
This is why Hillary lost, the common man has big problem with this, but it was not a priority for Hillary who took tons of money from the tax dodging oligarchs. I vote for Hillary, but only reluctantly.
- krapp 10y ago
  > This is why Hillary lost, the common man has big problem with this, but it was not a priority for Hillary who took tons of money from the tax dodging oligarchs. So the common man voted for a billionaire oligarch who publicly boasted that avoiding taxes made him smart? The common man was taken for a sucker.
  - jgalt212 10y ago
    perhaps. time will tell. but it's definitely clear who the oligarchs were lining up for. And that person was not Trump.
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  - rando444 10y ago
    The common man was given a choice for voting for someone who was proven to be against their interests vs. someone who had yet to prove themselves against their interests. Perhaps the common man was taken for a sucker, but with Hillary rigging the DNC and colluding with the media, the people were not given much of a choice.
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    - krapp 10y ago
      Had any real scrutiny been paid to Trump's business dealings or numerous lawsuits, his newly minted persona of anti-establishment populist hero of the people might have seemed as fake to the stereotypical "common man" as it did to everyone else. He publicly supported Hillary Clinton for President and praised her work as Secretary of State before he was running against her... ...and then suddenly she's the most corrupt, incompetent and evil person ever to hold American public office, and Trump would never want to align himself with the system she represents. When exactly did Trump prove he was for the common man and against the system?

22 points by paglia_s 10y ago

If a key part of your business strategy involves moving your money to an offshore bank account, you're probably a criminal organization.

benchaney 10y ago
That isn't even close to a true statement.
- PhantomGremlin 10y ago
  You're correct from the perspective of a lawyer or pedant. The GP is correct from the perspective of the common man.
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anthony-james 10y ago
If a key part of your organizational strategy is to tax companies more than your peers and get sad when they leave, you're probably the United States government.

jgalt212 10y ago

This is why Hillary lost, the common man has big problem with this, but it was not a priority for Hillary who took tons of money from the tax dodging oligarchs. I vote for Hillary, but only reluctantly.

krapp 10y ago
> This is why Hillary lost, the common man has big problem with this, but it was not a priority for Hillary who took tons of money from the tax dodging oligarchs. So the common man voted for a billionaire oligarch who publicly boasted that avoiding taxes made him smart? The common man was taken for a sucker.
- jgalt212 10y ago
  perhaps. time will tell. but it's definitely clear who the oligarchs were lining up for. And that person was not Trump.
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- rando444 10y ago
  The common man was given a choice for voting for someone who was proven to be against their interests vs. someone who had yet to prove themselves against their interests. Perhaps the common man was taken for a sucker, but with Hillary rigging the DNC and colluding with the media, the people were not given much of a choice.
  - deleted 10y ago
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  - krapp 10y ago
    Had any real scrutiny been paid to Trump's business dealings or numerous lawsuits, his newly minted persona of anti-establishment populist hero of the people might have seemed as fake to the stereotypical "common man" as it did to everyone else. He publicly supported Hillary Clinton for President and praised her work as Secretary of State before he was running against her... ...and then suddenly she's the most corrupt, incompetent and evil person ever to hold American public office, and Trump would never want to align himself with the system she represents. When exactly did Trump prove he was for the common man and against the system?