the left peed their pants.

The good news is, maybe some time of agreement will be made, not just for the 102 BILLION that Apple currently has in cash offshore, but the other trillions of dollars waiting to be repatriated to this country.

Can you imagine the boon to the economy if they agreed to something like a ten or fifteen percent tax on the repatriated money? It would mean an immediate 100+ billion dollars in tax revenues and a trillion or so real dollars, not just fantasy money printed by the fed, but real dollars into this economy.

I wonder how many jobs a trillion dollars of private sector money would create? I bet it would be a hell of a lot more than the same amount spent in government "stimulus"

Irish tax laws do not consider a corporation to be a resident for tax purposes, unless an entity is managed and controlled in Ireland. Apple set up subsidiaries in Ireland but managed them from the United States. As a result, they have not paid taxes on $74 billion in income over the last 4 years according the  WSJ.

Get ready, because here comes the pitchforks from the left. There are 2 words the article mentions multiple times. Tax LOOPHOLES and tax AVOIDANCE. At the end of the day, there is only income, tax credits and tax deductions. After that, it becomes tax fraud.

Did Apple commit tax fraud? Anybody with half a brain, and that includes the left, institutes a legal tax avoidance strategy. That's what Apple did. Apple was just taking advantage of a ridiculous and unnecessary complex tax code.

Apple just happens to be today's poster child of evil.

Now back to your original point. I think many companies would absolutely take your offer of 10-15% tax on repatriated money. There is something like $2T sitting offshore. John Chambers of Cisco basically said the same thing. Can you imagine the economic stimulus with $2T, and it doesn't cost the taxpayers one dollar.

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and I do root for the Fighting Irish to beat the shit out of USC, which rarely happens. I did root for them against the Tide. I said root not bet. I'm a fan, not an idiot.

but the fighting Irish against the Tide was a laugher, I laughed all the way to the bank, it was a great way to end the NCAA football season.

speaking of laughing, i am thinking about another trip down south, maybe next week, any takers???

To cut and paste his usual drivel about how the right, blah, blah.

just that they can make it more beneficial to repatriate the money rather than keep it offshore, they can make it as complicated as they like as long as we get the end result.

I remember how much the Tax Reform Act of 1984 simplified the system, and I also remember how every subsequent act served to re complicate it. Kind of like breaking up ATT and then watching the pieces reassemble. Or the Standard Oil Trust, or .....Fuck the list goes on and on.

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considered people, but was Apple running for president?

But where was the left and their outrage when John Kerry was running for President?

he is so predictible, both in timing and what he will say.

Amazing that GE pays so little in taxes, but the Dems never objected