Your premise is that the government owns all the labor, capital, and yields thereof. If you live in the USA then you are incorrect...thus far. Perhaps the former Soviet Union would be more to your way of thinking. Oh wait, that monstrosity failed and is now ruled by the mob. Perhaps Cuba (another wreck of a nation) would welcome you now. Please feel free to relocate.

If you don't understand where that come from then you aren't competent to question anything else in this article. The more important question is "what will Apple do with the cash reserves"? Formerly those reserves would be re-invested in the USA to grow/improve/increase market share with it's attendant economic benefits. Now it's invested elsewhere for the host nation's benefit. By the way - avoidance is absolutely legal and encouraged. If you are declaring exemptions on your tax return then you are engaging avoidance. Perhaps you are insinuating evasion, which is unlawful. Big difference bunky.

Gongloff is obviously disconnected from the reality of actually generating an income from meaningful work rather than playing with amorphous statistics for his daily bread. His musings are but an adult version of a child blissfully playing with crayons while his parents work to pay the bills. Such is the state of man "progressives" in our country today.

Well said. Until the content of one's character is superior to the color of one's skin, as eloquently stated by Dr. King and others, affirmative action will always and only be institutional racism dressed in a nicer suit.

"spoken with". Mea Culpa. Tragic and reprehensible.

Have these people viewed, or actually spoke with, an eleven years old girl lately? Why would anyone with a modicum of decency encourage the sale of this drug to these children? NAMBLA has now been made unisex. Tragic.

The Ivy league has always and forever been about connections rather than education. Other than the relatively small science offerings the Ivies churn out rich kids who feed the endless stream of stock brokers, attorny rolls, and "activists" which plague our nation. Even the venerable Harvard Business School is now just another club for trust fund babies. Sad. Invest your educations dollars wisely rather than socially.

Almost 35 years ago, shortly after the birth of our firstborn son, we met a lovely woman who simply could not get enough of our energetic little boy. Even though we just met in a store she played, chattered, and basically was delighted with him for an hour until we finally had to leave. She explained, through quiet tears, that she & her husband had bought the lie of a "perfect house/car/career/bank account etc" prior to a family. Unable to have that family, traded for temporal ease, she said that she chose poorly and would give it all up in a heartbeat for a little child like ours. That experience has stayed with us ever since.

The Church of Iscariat has spoken. Moral preening will always be in vogue for these vipers.

Didn't realize that you owned Christianity. Thought the Lord was in charge of that particular Kingdom. Oh well.