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New York Times Outs Apple, Enemy of the People, on Tax “Sidestep”

Rosa19 Wrote: Apr 30, 2012 6:42 AM

They ARE paying their fair share in more ways than your professors explained. You are asking that they pay MORE than their fair share. Economics 101. It's their fault the entitled didn't take advantage of AA, free college tuition, cheap housing, etc. Not Apple's fault they use their troubled home life to excuse dropping out of school or believing the "white man" is against them. Many of us came from tough lives and had to /work our way through college without free money or AA. You don't hear us whining about life or wanting others to pay MORE than their fair share. Why is it we had to work our way up and now we have to pay for those who only had excuses?

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Rosa19 Wrote: Apr 30, 2012 6:47 AM

It's "NOT" their fault the entitled didn't take advantage of AA.... Left out the "not" part.

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New York Times Outs Apple, Enemy of the People, on Tax “Sidestep”

So it’s come to this: If you’re a successful technology company that employs 47,000 people in the U.S. along with supporting the employment of another 257,000 jobs domestically at other companies, that’s not enough.

It’s not enough that according to a company study published in the New York Times, your operations “have generated almost $5 billion in federal and state income taxes, including income taxes withheld on employee stock gains, making [you] among the top payers of U.S. income tax,” in the first half of 2012 alone.

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