The problem with Starbucks and similar corporate entities using legal loopholes to reduce their tax burden is that someone else has to pick up the slack. And as that someone else would be me, forgive me if I don't share your appreciation of their creative accountancy.
The problem with Starbucks and similar corporate entities using legal loopholes to reduce their tax burden is that someone else has to pick up the slack. And as that someone else would be me, forgive me if I don’t share your appreciation of their creative accountancy.
Or maybe you are talking about the government grants in the millions of dollars some one who call them self a scientist may get to study why a dissected frog can not croak.
Or maybe the millions of dollars the people in power comes up with all of a sudden after they come into power or why the so called public servants get more just in extra benefits than the people who pay them, the tax payers, get total income.
Any one who believes that all of this government crap in any country is ok should be willing to pay much more than their fair share of the tax.
The u.s. government use taxes and regulations to rob big and small business,s for the purpose of putting them out of business and bring in socialism.
If some of these business,s goes over seas to another socialist country who would do the same thing and beats them i see nothing wrong with that.
And yet Freepers regularly (and rightly) point out that it’s hardly fair that 47% of US citizens pay no income tax.
The problem with Starbucks and similar corporate entities using legal loopholes to reduce their tax burden is that someone else has to pick up the slack. And as that someone else would be me, forgive me if I don’t share your appreciation of their creative accountancy.
Kinda like those who whine about individuals getting money from the govt....but support big business and banks when the government bails them out (anyone who votes for a Congress critter who voted for bank bailouts...this is you)
And, Starbucks is quite a leftist company...so I surely will not celebrate a liberal dodging the same taxman that they want everyone else to pay up to.
BTW...Costa Coffee....their Brit competitor...has much better coffee
Corporations don’t pay taxes.
Corporations COLLECT taxes from their customers.
I understand your viewpoint. I would remind you that we don’t have an under-taxation problem. We have an over-spending problem.
Government destroys money. The private sector grows it.
Government spending is not self-sustaining.
Private enterprise is.
Anyone who can avoid taxes legally, is doing the Lord’s work as far as I am concerned.
One thing to take into consideration here, is this was taking place in Britain