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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)."
Corporate taxes are simply a way of hiding taxes from the paying public. Do you think the corporations cares that it's paying taxes? Corporations don't have feelings any they can't vote. They just raise their prices, lower their wages and pay fewer dividends to shareholders. Worse still, since corporate taxes tax profits rather than revenues, they punish companies for being successful. The more profitable your company is, the more it will have to pay.
We need to abolish corporate profit taxes immediately, they are unjust and unfair.
"they cheat the greater well-being of society" ... right, as if the catholic church hasn't cheated the greater well-being of society for the last 2 thousand years with:
...and on and on and on ...
-hundreds of child molesting priests;
-destruction of hundreds of native cultures around the world;
-scams to buy forgiveness for your sins and buy your way into heaven;
-thousands of years of intentional friction or worse with all other religions;
-constant re-interpretation of the bible to suit whatever power trip they are currently on;
George Bush + Linux = "I will not let information get in the way of the fight against Windows"
Yes because coercivly extracting assets and resources from people against their will(taxes) is completly moral and good... What? Since when did violence become part of the good?