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Profit (creatively shielded from tax) above all. (Rotten) Apple.
by intricatedetail 5y ago
Profit (creatively shielded from tax) above all. (Rotten) Apple.
- revscat 5y agoWhat makes you believe Apple is unique in their avoidance in paying taxes?
- meowster 5y agoAre you defending Apple by using the Whataboutism fallacy?
- JumpCrisscross 5y ago> Are you defending Apple by using the Whataboutism fallacy? Pointing out that Apple follows the law, like every other company, isn’t whataboutism. In any event, Apple pays its taxes in America. The manoeuvres are on its foreign income.
- effingwewt 5y agoyou literally just described whataboutism. 'apple follows the law like every other' you are saying 'but apple isnt the only one, whatabout' when the companies get to make the laws, they dont also then get to hide behind them as a shield.
- skygazer 5y agoI agree that distorting focus is often a propaganda tool and diversionary tactic, but it goes both ways. Sometimes the category of problem really is larger and more widespread than the single cited instance, and it’s necessary and reasonable to see the forest rather than just the tree, particularly when the best solution applies to the forest as a whole; e.g. to close the widely exploited loopholes.
- revscat 5y agoNo. I’m saying you’re hating the fish that swim in a polluted stream. Apple, and Amazon, and Exxon-Mobil, and Goldman-Sachs, etc. all swim in those same poisonous waters. The stream is the problem.
- iudqnolq 5y agoNo it's saying you shouldn't hate the polluting fish in the polluted stream just because other fish are bad too.
- taberiand 5y agoWhere did they say that they believe Apple is unique in their avoidance of paying taxes?