Reason Writers on Fox Biz: Matt Welch Talks Apple's Taxes on Varney & Co.

Matt Welch | 5.1.2012 9:50 AM

Yesterday I went on Varney & Co. to discuss the Apple-shaming campaign:

More reading from yesterday: "This Just in: Successful Company Chooses to Legally Maximize Profit Rather Than Reward High-Tax Jurisdictions."

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sarcasmic 13 years ago

Did you mention the book? It's not going to mention itself, you know.
1. Restoras 13 years ago
  
  Winner.
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

Welch looks like he needs to get back to working on the Apollo moonshot program.
1. Soc Indv Sparky 13 years ago
  
  I don't think any of them would have dared to wear a pink, purple, and yellow tie.
  1. Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago
    
    And the other poindexters no doubt would have thrown their slide rules at him in protest.
Spiny Norman 13 years ago

Those two keep up a polite veneer, but you know that the whole "Tell Me Why" issue is still a sore spot.
plu1959 13 years ago

So let me get this straight. The Concern Media is concerned because one of California's largest private employers is not paying more in taxes to another state? WTH? Don't lower taxes in AZ mean Apple has more money available to spend on salaries in CA?
1. wareagle 13 years ago
  
  Don't lower taxes in AZ mean Apple has more money available to spend on salaries in CA?
  
  you clearly need to go to a statism re-education camp. That money is not Apple's to spend on salaries; to the folks in Sacramento, the money is not Apple's at all. It belongs to the govt and only through Big State's benevolence is Apple allowed to keep some of what it earns.
  1. plu1959 13 years ago
    
    Of course. What was I thinking?
Randian 13 years ago

Apple Shrugs, and no one at the New York Times can figure out why. Didn't we read this book already?
Mr. FIFY 13 years ago

I subjected myself to approximately 42 seconds of the Ed Schultz show last night, and it just had to be about this topic... the way he and his ilk put it, Apple might as well be raping retarded third-graders and pushing nuns into gas chambers.
1. wareagle 13 years ago
  
  was Ed equally bothered by GE's tax avoidance?
  1. Mr. FIFY 13 years ago
    
    Never heard his take on it, as I can only stomach about five minutes of Ed a month... but he's a socialist, so I reckon deep down he hates GE as well.
    
    Damn sure Lawrence O'Donnell hates them both even more, given his even-stronger-than-Ed socialist streak.
  2. sarcasmic 13 years ago
    
    GE is a "green" company, and friends with the Obama White House.
    Those same standards do not apply.
    
    Liberals judge people, not principles.
    1. Mr. FIFY 13 years ago
      
      Liberals also barely tolerate the private sector; if it weren't for the tax revenue, they'd nationalize every business, and we'd all be forced to join unions.
Old Mexican 13 years ago

"We're just shocked - shocked! - that Apple would use legal means to avoid opening their purse to us! Why, the greedy bastards!"
1. Mr. FIFY 13 years ago
  
  Were you watching MSNBC, Old Mex? That could have come from any of their staff.
2. Sevo 13 years ago
  
  I'd say Apple found out what was in the various tax codes after they were passed. Shame those who wrote them didn't do so before they were passed.
MooseOfReason 13 years ago

So Matt, I hear you're a libertarian.
ZippoTing 13 years ago

Sounds like a rock solid plan to me dude.

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