Apple also doesn't pay taxes. What are people supposed to do for work? Don't say everyone learn to code. Facebook employs less than 20,000.https://twitter.com/cghgreen/status/829393788619673607 …
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The new economy is mostly based on not paying taxes while employing very few people directly and high paying jobs almost solely for coders.
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Pay taxes at appropriate levels; employ many people in stable good jobs; have stability in countries you operate. Pick two, Silicon Valley.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted graiz.eth
A worthy goal! But not possible without taxes to pay for health care, education etc. that allow people to seek that.https://twitter.com/graiz/status/829690421286670338 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted ΧΡΙΣΤΌΦΟΡΟΣ bɝːd
Historically, this never *just* happened. What stability we had was via specific taxation & infrastructure policies.https://twitter.com/christopherburd/status/829721253040623616 …
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Fair; it's not just Apple. It's industry-wide. Yes, Apple paid a tiny bit of taxes—0.005% tax on its global profits. https://twitter.com/steriana/status/829724839392927744 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted James Grimmelmann
Fair enough; but a lot of those are regressive—and executive pay has also shifted out to much less taxed version.https://twitter.com/grimmelm/status/829738928504717312 …
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Married to a tax lawyer. Can't quite explain all of this, but our corporate taxes are actually pretty high compared with elsewhere.
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same thing with personal income tax. We even tax executives living abroad, which doesn't happen in most other tax regimes
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There is less and less of "here"—its tax havens and various schemes to minimize taxes in a race to the bottom.
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