Apple avoids taxes, then complains US schools are lousy

[CincyDem]

22. No I'm not fine with it and...

...and we're a land of laws.

The unfortunate f'ing reality is that our elected officials, as chosen by the majority of voters (not necessarily the majority of the population)...this is what they want.

When the PR goes bad it's easy to say those guys as Apple shouldn't have used the loopholes created by congress. It's easy for those reps to say "but but but...I didn't think anyone would actually do that"...

If you didn't want people to do it, why did ya leave the f'ing door open. Close the damn thing.

And let's be clear, I'm not sure in today's world that we can stand around and say that any company has a "duty" toward the country that gave it everything.

I was born here. I grew up here. I was educated here. This country gave me everything. But that doesn't mean that I pay more taxes than the law requires. I have and will continue to vote for people who say "american's need to pay more taxes for quality education, road, services". I have and will continue to vote against people who say "we should cut the salaries of amazing public servants so that american's can pay less taxes". But until those votes have an effect and those taxes start going up - I'm not over paying.

Anyone else out there ONLY paying what the law requires.