Google chairman Eric Schmidt defends tax avoidance policies

[adieu]

7. They're cheats because

they have the ability to have the ear of legislators to craft legislation that makes it favorable to the companies, unlike regular citizens. So basically, they craft a law so that what would have been illegal (paying less money) is now legal. Really no different than if I were to get a law passed that allows me to kill people with impunity, and then I go around killing people. "Hey, it's legal!"

What we're saying here is not that he's doing something illegal, because it is legal. What we're saying here is that he's cheating, which it is, because he (and his ilk) gets to muddy the legislative process that the rest of us are not allowed to do.