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Will the Pope Declare Google Evil?
theodp writes "In the next few days, Pope Benedict XVI plans to issue his second encyclical, in which he is expected to denounce the use of tax havens as socially unjust and immoral in that they cheat the greater well-being of society. He is also expected to argue that the globalized economic world needs to be regulated. Prime technology companies playing the offshore 'profit laundering' game include Dell, Google, Microsoft, and Sun, who set up subsidiaries in Ireland, where the corporate tax rate is a low 12.5% and no taxes are charged on royalties (e.g. from patents)."
Why does the popes opinion have any more weight than the ramblings of any other silly old twat who believes in archaic superstition?
Like George W Bush you mean?
"does god levy 'taxes' ?"
Yes. He taxes your free will as a retirement fund.
I reserve the write to mangle english.
Yes, apparently the diety of a bunch of goat-herding nomads from thousands of years ago doesn't like it, so it's got to be stopped.
so Bill Gates converts to become a Roman Catholic - they do everything nowadays to get followers since their sex rules are so unattractive - well, except in the US, that is...
(a) should the Internet move to IPv6 or stick with IPv4? Which one is the lesser evil?
(b) Blue-Ray vs HD-DVD: what would Jesus watch?
Being a pope myself, I must both strongly oppose and applaud your opinion.
No, really. This is funny: Evil and good are subjective adjectives given by opinionated pricks..
Yeah? Well I think you're overrated too.
Thus began the least-successful marketing campaign in history, which we'll be examining over the next semester...
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I thought that Bill Gates bought the Catholic Church?! See Here