IDK. If you discovered something in the tax code that let you pay way less of your taxes, would you consider it not "socially responsible" to do it and tell your friends to? Would you just forget about said discovery and keep paying what you originally paid in taxes? Do you take any deductions every year? Do you take tax credits that you don't need?
The deductions I find avaialble for my personal income taxes were deliberatly written into law AS deduictions. I did not walk through an elabporate maze to build a house overseas, or hire a squad of lawers to create a way to expoit this "bug" in the tax code.
If Apple were lobbying (and they very well may be, but we can't just assume) for laws in every country to stay as they are, that'd be a different story.
If they took the time to figure out how to do what they have already done, it's not much of a stretch to imaginge that they are lobbying hard. They are, afterall, a money making machine.
But we have Cook on record as saying "this is a Congress problem". And it is. Congress needs to change the tax laws.
That's admitting it IS A PROBELM in Apple's own judgemnt and passing blame to Congress.
Even if Apple were to choose to voluntarily pay more taxes, it'd be a drop in the bucket for the Federal budget.
The collective total amount of money this 'loophole" has cost the governemnt is a lot.
"U.S. corporations hold $2.1 trillion in profits offshore — much in tax havens — that have not been taxed in the U.S." - http://www.americansfortaxfair...
The only way to actually make a dent is to make them, their competitors and all the other companies also pay more in taxes. That's kinda beyond Apple's abilities.
Ture. But they ARE a part of the problem... not the solution.
Frankly, the thought of sitting on an assembly line mindlessly inserting tab A into slot B all day is horrifyingly dreary. And I really just don't get the obsession people have over the tedium of assembly being done elsewhere; when the design, engineering, software, management, and operations are done here. And more than a small part of the retail, distribution, and support is done here as well.
I bet many laid off American assembly line workers would take those jobs.
Oh, yes, Toyota, a Japanese company operates assembly lines in the US. I'm sure they are not doing so to be "nice" to American workers, but it shows that people will work those jobs.
So, Apple is again leading the pack by showing the world how to screw the nation that allowed it to become so rich.
Sure, it's not illegal, but how does that demonstrate social responsibility? It shows great smarts in maximizing profits (not wrong in the slightest), but it also shows that it's more important to make money at ANY cost in Apple's eyes (as any business does, by its very nature), than to consider how these actions affect our nation.
They are hypocrites to say they are leading the pack in "social responsibility", while posing as the poster child of corporations robbing Uncle Sam, leaving the shrinking middle class paying for a government drowning in debt.
Apple's not blameless and have plenty of business nastiness in them. No one gets as old as they are and remain idealists.
Then it sounds like Apple's infamous "reality distorting" marketing department is no longer just selling products, but has taken on the role of public relations as well.
I hope to see, new world changing products. But simply spending tons of money does not translate to epic products without a true visionary directing it.
And how, do you suppose those tax loopholes got there in the first place? Perhaps not Apple, but several someones paid a nice bribe to keep that hole WIDE open!
Cook is making his mark by highlighting the importance of social efforts: LGBT rights, philanthropy, corporate diversity, renewable energy and improving manufacturing conditions abroad.
I thought Apple was first and foremost a technology company?
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IDK. If you discovered something in the tax code that let you pay way less of your taxes, would you consider it not "socially responsible" to do it and tell your friends to? Would you just forget about said discovery and keep paying what you originally paid in taxes? Do you take any deductions every year? Do you take tax credits that you don't need?
The deductions I find avaialble for my personal income taxes were deliberatly written into law AS deduictions. I did not walk through an elabporate maze to build a house overseas, or hire a squad of lawers to create a way to expoit this "bug" in the tax code.
If Apple were lobbying (and they very well may be, but we can't just assume) for laws in every country to stay as they are, that'd be a different story.
If they took the time to figure out how to do what they have already done, it's not much of a stretch to imaginge that they are lobbying hard. They are, afterall, a money making machine.
But we have Cook on record as saying "this is a Congress problem". And it is. Congress needs to change the tax laws.
That's admitting it IS A PROBELM in Apple's own judgemnt and passing blame to Congress.
Even if Apple were to choose to voluntarily pay more taxes, it'd be a drop in the bucket for the Federal budget.
The collective total amount of money this 'loophole" has cost the governemnt is a lot.
"U.S. corporations hold $2.1 trillion in profits offshore — much in tax havens — that have not been taxed in the U.S." - http://www.americansfortaxfair...
The only way to actually make a dent is to make them, their competitors and all the other companies also pay more in taxes. That's kinda beyond Apple's abilities.
Ture. But they ARE a part of the problem... not the solution.
Except for high security environments, I wonder if we will soon see the day when wired network access is as rare as 8-track cartridges?
I thought inserting a 3.5 mm male connector into a 3.5 mm female connector was consensual?
However 3.5 mm is rather small....
Like a glass... window?
A great company makes GREAT products, not GREAT numbers of proclaimed social opinions!
*Dons iNecklace... and walks down the street looking cool.
Frankly, the thought of sitting on an assembly line mindlessly inserting tab A into slot B all day is horrifyingly dreary. And I really just don't get the obsession people have over the tedium of assembly being done elsewhere; when the design, engineering, software, management, and operations are done here. And more than a small part of the retail, distribution, and support is done here as well.
I bet many laid off American assembly line workers would take those jobs.
Oh, yes, Toyota, a Japanese company operates assembly lines in the US. I'm sure they are not doing so to be "nice" to American workers, but it shows that people will work those jobs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Then everyone else saw this and did it too.
So, Apple is again leading the pack by showing the world how to screw the nation that allowed it to become so rich.
Sure, it's not illegal, but how does that demonstrate social responsibility? It shows great smarts in maximizing profits (not wrong in the slightest), but it also shows that it's more important to make money at ANY cost in Apple's eyes (as any business does, by its very nature), than to consider how these actions affect our nation.
They are hypocrites to say they are leading the pack in "social responsibility", while posing as the poster child of corporations robbing Uncle Sam, leaving the shrinking middle class paying for a government drowning in debt.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...
Thankfully I am finally using Bluetooth...
On my Android phone.
Apple's not blameless and have plenty of business nastiness in them. No one gets as old as they are and remain idealists.
Then it sounds like Apple's infamous "reality distorting" marketing department is no longer just selling products, but has taken on the role of public relations as well.
I hope to see, new world changing products. But simply spending tons of money does not translate to epic products without a true visionary directing it.
And how, do you suppose those tax loopholes got there in the first place? Perhaps not Apple, but several someones paid a nice bribe to keep that hole WIDE open!
All good points...
But, does that mean that the removal of the physical headphone jack from the iPhone 7 is actually a form of social progress?
Perhaps this is how Microsoft is going to get Windows 10 on a billion devices...
Gasp!! Windows will soon be the foundation for the new unified Apple Operating system: Apple OS 10
You can be a tech company and try to not be total douchebags.
As long as that doesn't include off-sourcing jobs to China, and paying taxes to any country except the one that made Apple possible...
In Soviet Russia it is already Thursday, so tomorrow is Friday!
You obviously haven't seen the tree yet!
Like a Good Neighbor, State Farm will [soon] be there!
I like a little space between me and my neighbors.
Cook is making his mark by highlighting the importance of social efforts: LGBT rights, philanthropy, corporate diversity, renewable energy and improving manufacturing conditions abroad.
I thought Apple was first and foremost a technology company?
Is that a right or a left at Mercury?
Crap! Is this a one way street? The next turn off is.... oh... should have ordered the extra large Coke at the Seven-Eleven on Venus!
Then who would be left to post?
No...
But with NASA's excellent computer security.... https://hardware.slashdot.org/... ...., I'm sure the pictures will be out soon enough!
I hear it gets a 3-star rating!
This is the second post. The first story was published last Wednesday. It's quite common for Slashdot to publish stories BEFORE they happen.
The majority of Slash users only see the second post, and falsely accuse the site for lagging behind. Nothing could be further from the truth.