Apple Walks Away From Multibillion Dollar Tax Obligation

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35. Over who's dead body?

That's the problem. They are not going to let go without some major and intense opposition in a concentrated and cohesive movement.

The iron grasp of corporately-sponsored policy has its talons deeply imbedded in the infrastructure of our politics and economy.

We can wish and hope, but Apple, ALEC, et al, are not, at this stage, deeply moved, motivated or required to respond to the angst in the grim cadence of the vox populi.

Apple is merely flaunting the position they maintain and it smells of profit, tax evasion and gross exploitation of the workers who toil to make their model work -- a model built with a facade fashioned decades ago via injection into school system and at artistic cutting edge. The "feel good" special aura of Apple works and it really doesn't matter if they crucify frogs in the basement of their corporate lair ... I mean headquarters. That company is a Corporate Saint in a Utopian Tyranny.