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It may be bad policy but it's not fraudulent. Running a deficit can be profitable long term -- or not. It depends on how the funds are allocated. Ask Bezos. L
by badlibrarian 2y ago
It may be bad policy but it's not fraudulent.
Running a deficit can be profitable long term -- or not. It depends on how the funds are allocated. Ask Bezos.
Likewise a tax writeoff can increase tax revenue over the long term -- or not. It depends how the tax savings are applied. Ask the employees who still have their jobs.
Regardless, a media company struggling to breakeven with cartoon coyotes may not be the best starting point for an economics debate.
- nerdponx 2y agoIt's fraudulent in the sense that it's a fake loss, as you say created by clever accounting.
- badlibrarian 2y agoThat's not what I said. For avoidance of doubt, allow me to rephrase the concept in the local language: paying a bunch of artists and engineers to build an app that generates minimal revenue, pulling it from the app store, then writing off the loss, is neither clever nor fraudulent.
- nerdponx 2y agoRight, I get what you said. I am arguing that it is in fact a fraud perpetrated against the taxpayer, even if it's not legally categorized as "fraud" at this time.
- badlibrarian 2y agoWhy is writing off a loss fraudulent? This very website is funded by such actions.
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