Maybe it is the lawyer in me, but why wouldn't any international business do whatever it could legally do to minimize its taxes? It's the lawyer in you and

Maybe it is the lawyer in me, but why wouldn't any international business do whatever it could legally do to minimize its taxes? It's the lawyer in you and he's misleading you. It's not a question of doing what they can do. The economist in you should conclude that it is a question of doing what they must do in order to remain competitive. You can't choose to 'do no evil', when all your competitors are doing evil. That road leads only to bankruptcy, as they can undercut your prices, because they pay much lower taxes. This is one of the examples explaining why capitalism is fundamentally incapable of providing any moral guidelines. It doesn't care about what is right, only about what turns a profit.