Apple is the largest corporation in the world by market cap. It does not find itself drifting like a plastic bag in the wind. Apple spends over $5m per year on

Apple is the largest corporation in the world by market cap. It does not find itself drifting like a plastic bag in the wind. Apple spends over $5m per year on lobbyists. A sum that no regular business would be able to afford - a form of influence on government that is fundamentally exclusively available to megacorporations like Apple. That's in the US alone where Apple already has extremely favourable tax conditions. Apple is not guilty of tax avoidance, Apple is guilty of paying legislators to change laws in a way that is fundamentally incompatible with democracy. At a time when the US Federal government is running a deficit Apple's lobbying spending has reached record highs and legislation to reduce corporate taxes are proposing record low rates. Land of the expensive, home of silent CEO hiding from questions about dodgy tax affairs.