[Vision2020] A Wormy Apple

Tue May 21 10:58:38 PDT 2013

So here is a company making billions and billions using physical and social
infrastructure which we as taxpayers help to construct and maintain, and
they should not contribute toward that?

Wonderful.

w.

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Here's a quote from Rand Paul on the hearings:
>
> "I'm offended by the spectacle of dragging in executives from an American
> company that is not doing anything illegal," he added. "If anyone should be
> on trial, it should be Congress."
>
> My sentiments exactly.  Quote from:
> http://www.businessinsider.com/rand-paul-congress-not-apple-should-be-on-trial-for-taxes-2013-5
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> Paul
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>  *From:* Art Deco <art.deco.studios at gmail.com>
> *To:* Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 21, 2013 9:01 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [Vision2020] A Wormy Apple
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> @Paul,
>
> Yes.  But much easier said then done when large corporations now
> contribute so much to elected officials.  They don't do it for altruistic
> purposes, but for bottom line purposes, i.e. buying face time.
>
> w.
>
>
> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
> They haven't actually broken any laws that I can tell.  If the law allows
> this kind of tom-foolery, then it's no wonder corporations make use of it.
> If we want this to change, we must change the laws.
>
> Paul
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>  *From:* Scott Dredge <scooterd408 at hotmail.com>
> *To:* Art Deco <art.deco.studios at gmail.com>; viz <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> *Sent:* Monday, May 20, 2013 6:41 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Vision2020] A Wormy Apple
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> Apple shareholders are likely very pleased about this tax avoidance.
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> Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 17:48:27 -0400
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> as Apple became the nation’s most profitable technology company, it avoided
> billions in taxes in the United States and around the world through a web
> of subsidiaries so complex it spanned continents and surprised experts, a
> Congressional investigation has found. Some of these subsidiaries had no
> employees and were largely run by top officials from the company’s
> headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., according to Congressional
> investigators. But by officially locating them in places like Ireland,
> Apple was able to, in effect, make them stateless – exempt from taxes,
> record-keeping laws and the need for the subsidiaries to even file tax
> returns anywhere in the world. In 2011, for example, one subsidiary paid
> Ireland just one-twentieth of 1 percent in taxes on $22 billion on pretax
> earnings from various operations; another did not file a corporate tax
> return anywhere and has paid almost nothing on $30 billion in profits since
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