Apple Inc. employs a group of affiliate companies located outside the United States to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. income taxes, a Senate investigation has found.

The company has made clear that given current U.S. tax rates, it has no intention of repatriating its overseas profits to the U.S.

http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/panel-apple-uses-firms-outside-us-to-avoid-taxes/article_4435390d-3ad2-59c2-b8c3-9baa7691a250.html


Every one sold here should came with a hefty import surcharge.

Many corporations avoid taxes.

and therefore just fine.

But I don't agree that it is fine or ethically correct.
Though this goes for more than just Apple, I feel this way in regards most companies, from GE to anything else.

Except Maglite. I like Maglite.

That's funny.

but that could be said for most any corporation living on corporate welfare.

Though I am mostly concentrating on where they should concentrate their efforts are in regards to jobs and the economy.

The current attention to the deficit is frustrating.

I can think of another f word to describe their lack of attention. I've completely given up on Congress. The don't seem to want to keep the country working on a daily basis.

Why would government have wanted to develop an iPhone so I could read DU and play games? Really they could care less. That would never be their priority and I wouldn't expect it to be.

It's not like they are so interested in transparency that my phone makes it easy to oversee the government.

My iPhone furthers nothing that the government thinks is necessary.