Apple Avoiding Billions And Billions Of Dollars In Taxes

"Cook’s proposal is likely to be for a “tax repatriation holiday” and a “territorial tax system,” both of which mean giant, multinational companies like Apple will pay less in taxes, people like Cook will have even more money, and We the People will end up with higher taxes, fewer good schools and good roads and police and teachers and the other things government does to make our lives better. As a bonus, this makes giant multinationals that move jobs and profits overseas even more competitive against smaller American companies that keep jobs and profits here and do not have foreign “subsidiaries” located in tax havens."

Joan, I hope you see the similarities.

In the decades between the Civil War and FDR's New Deal, corporations treated employees here in the US of A as badly as they are now treating employees in other countries. And the government was on the corporations' side.

My mom's father was self-employed and did okay. I don't like to think of how they treated my dad's father; he and his family were among the urban poor in northern Kentucky.