According to an analysis by Congress, Apple evaded $13.8 billion in US federal taxes using complicated foreign shelters and loopholes.
In a Better World
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."
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Yes, in a better world in which the government is for the people and no one, not even Apple, is free from consequences.
There is mor ANGEr than HOPE in CHANGE today!
Not that I hold any brief for Apple’s practices, either with regard to (non)payment of taxes in the countries in which it makes its profits or with regard to its attempts to lock competitors out and consumers in to the markets for its products (so-called «competition by lawyer»), but I do feel that Ted needs to draw a similar cartoon in which someone standing in front of a Capitol Hill on fire remarks that the blaze will be extinguished as soon as the US Congress rescinds the laws which makes corporate tax-dodging so easy, so profitable, and so very «legal»….
Henri