They seem to think there's nothing we can do about it.

I hope they're wrong.

They Always Want More Money.

Congress set these tax laws in the first place giving their corporate donors dozens of ways to avoid paying taxes. We are also now seeing the mess they caused by trying to give their buddy donors a way to raise money tax free, i.e. 501(c)(4)s. Close the loopholes and the unfair tax advantages.

Paul is even more of a shameless corporate lackey than the old man...

I think he's an asshole.

Little turd like Paul is afforded a voice in any matter more serious than "would you like fries with that?" I demand his parents apologize to humanity,at large,for foisting this imbecilic piece of shit on the rest of us.

He'll just forever and ever run for the Presidency just like his father did.

Yes I am aware...To be even more fair,asshat,son of a bitch,heartless shit-stick,delusional and borderline traitorous bastard,he was,the ole man wasn't the whining,sniveling little shit his whelp is...

May I quote you?

Not that it would change my mind,(it won't), or that doing so could stop you from quoting me,but I'm somewhat curious about just where you might quote me,if you don't mind.

Fuck you, Rand Paul.

But I guess it's just his retirement, that fat sack of money he'll take away when he's done.

apologized to BP for the hearing about the leak.

Who had the apology tour?!

being born
running for office
not giving one shit about the people he claims to represent
and everything else hes ever done in his life

For God's sake don't upset the rich people, Rand...

... and let those of us who care about THIS country help OUR people and put ourselves in a position so that we can collectively help all of those in the world instead of struggling just to survive like we do now when corporations are allowed to play the games they are now that you seem to want to put on a pedestal.

JERK!

it's nearly an inescapable evaluation, given Paul's propagation and defense of PRIVATE WEAPONS MARKETS all over Earth. FRANCHISES for Libertarians' brave new engineered lives, in stepping stone communities for (M. Taibbi's) Citizens of the Archipelagos. Rand Paul is their, the 1%'s, indentured service-workers staffing agent for their sterile impotent randian paradise.

Does he mean These Jobs? The kind that come wit Suicide Nets?

Apple benefits tremendously by being headquartered in the U.S. and having substantial operations and sales here.

They benefit from our free market economy, our infrastructure, our people that are mostly educated at public expense, etc.

They are a success story not solely on their own. Yes, they have been visionaries in some regards and are masters at marketing. But they are not "self-made" by any means. Without the benefits of our economic and legal system they would not be the company they are today.

They have played games to avoid paying a fair share of taxes. They should be ashamed themselves.

Because the programs that get cut to subsidize companies like Apple are the ones directed at the neediest in society.

This is just another instance of Paul trying to be dormitory cool by slithering up next to Apple. If Paul's grandstanding attracts anyone to his cause, then the people he attracts are pretty much morans to begin with. What a fucking loser asshole.

I like and own several Apple products, but I'm growing more and more disappointed in Apple and its business practices.

that the government spends on WIC. And those billions spent by the government subsidize the dairy, meat and veg producers who supply the limited options available to WIC families.

Just like most of us, Apple doesn't write the tax laws, nor do they get to tell the government how to spend the billions they pay in taxes.

These hearings created the impression that Apple was violating US tax laws. They were not. Apple was a scapegoat in these hearings.

...because it's all right there in the article.
A very simple cut 'n paste job.
Ready?
Here goes:

"...Apple had used a network of offshore shell companies in recent years to avoid paying taxes..."

But I know this is going to ring hollow with you, Senator.
Those words will bounce around the inside of your skull, and you will never acknowledge them.
How do I know that?
Very simple.
You use one of those phrases that means nothing, and is simply shallow dog-whistle stuff:

"...compliment them for the job creation..."

Yeah, you're an empty vessel, Senator.
A thoughtless loon, reciting the lines given to you by evil parasites.

And he continues to show himself to be only a tool. Not an ounce of integrity. Bought and sold to the highest bidder.

go fuck himself.

I suppose you'll want to apologize to BP, too, like some of your little pals in the House wanted to do after that near-extinction event in the Gulf of Mexico a short while back?

What a jerk! And what does this say about the voters in his state then? They like this shit? They think this is a good thing?

to see the day when Ron Paul and all like him have returned to dust.

Congress' authority to hold the hearings derives from the necessary and proper clause in Article I, section 8 of the Constitution.

The purpose of the hearings is not to embarrass or punish people but to determine whether laws are being properly carried out by the executive branch and whether the existing laws need to be changed better to reach the goals of the government.

For example, the reason for calling Apple executives before Congress is not to punish them. Congress doesn't have the authority to sentence the guilty. That's the job of the courts. Article III of the Constitution provides the structure of the courts and instructs on their authority.

Rand Paul puts himself out there as such an expert on the Constitution. Really?

Check Wikipedia on congressional oversight and the Constitution if you don't believe me.

Where oh where is George Galloway when we need him to savage the real thing?

how very brave of him.

Damn, like my boss says, if we could get a guy w/ one idea, he could make it work. We give all businesses a free ride in taxes.
However, Apple is playing by the rules. Oil Co., banks,GE, etc, get a free ride plus.

Waste of time.

the general stability of the social climate. Apple needs to pay it's fair share.

one rule for the rich and one rule for the poor

crap

Picture this:

- rand paul: CONGRESS: APOLOGIZE TO APPLE!

- Congress: YES, YOUR infinite gRand majesty....

but call it for what it is: evil.

This nit wit, and those like him, really do see
the world completely ass-backwards.

Apple, et. al, should be apologizing TO US -- the
middle class -- who get stuck with the bill for the
balance due on the national budget. They should
beg for forgiveness and admit to being unpatriotic.

But they won't.

And Rand Paul, one of Satan's PR guys, won't come
to our defense, either.
He will always live in his warped little fantasy world
where tax cuts for the rich, flat taxes, or no taxes
at all are the utopian ideal; and where raising the
minimum wage and guaranteed health care for
everyone is derided as an "entitlement" mentality.

He expects us to be distracted and pacified by a tax
cut which amounts to 2 or 3 pennies on every dollar
we earn -- if that -- while those obscenely rich thieves
haul in billions through a legally protected con game.

BP uber alles! Apple uber alles! Kochs uber alles!

Further proof that conservative libertarians exist primarily to kiss corporate ass.