Your response is a strawman?
The responses at the link do a better job than you.
No, my responses are factual, not strawman responses. They are logical conclusions based on financial quarterly and yearly reports issued by Apple to the Federal Government, IRS, and regulators who oversee stock trading. Anyone who can read a financial statement would come to the same conclusion… I am economist with a minor in finance. You simply cannot HIDE $275 billion in “secret” spending as these bozos are claiming in a publicly traded corporation. It doesn’t happen; it can’t happen. I did not bother to read the linked responses. Your response to me is just blowing smoke trying to denigrate my commentary. The entire article has no factual basis in reality; it’s FUD.
Ok, I just read the “response at the link” and found nothing substantive. I found ZIP from any of them who bothered to go find data to backup the premise of the article at all from publicly available documents like I did (I found diddly and squat showing anything in the article was at all close to reality!). Instead I found an echo chamber of like-minded people accepting the article’s claims as the word of God when nothing could be closer to the truth. It’s FUD with no base in reality.
At best, it may be a formal agreement to continue to assemble some Apple products in China (however, that would be a public document), but the evidence of the past five years shows THAT is not happening as Apple moved iPhone, iPad, and even Mac computer manufacturing to other countries where costs are lower. So much for that theory.
Nowhere in the public financial reports is there any expenditures unaccounted for totaling $275 billion except for the Apple Common Share Stock buyback program, which just so happens to almost exactly total that amount during that same period and is completely documented, matching stock purchases on the open stock exchange. So much for that.
An AUDITED public corporation (audited every year) cannot HIDE such “secret” amounts of expenditures. It is NOT POSSIBLE, ifinnigan.