Robert Ariail for May 28, 2013

Quite right. We have a kind of faux democracy; it’s more a plutocracy or oligarchy, whatever. ;-)

I don’t get it wither. If the income declarations were true and the tax strategy was legal, they’ve done nothing wrong. Why are people mad at that?

B. S. The tax code was written by, for and with the rich in mind. Why do you think it’s thousands of pages long?

F-35: $1.3 TRILLION obligated so far, and it doesn’t work, but hey, that’s not “overspending”. Eventual cost of Iraq: $3-4 TRILLION, but hey, that’s cheap for getting even with a “contract” taken out on your “poppy”.

“Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other language.”

Socialism has no definitive form, every economy thus far on earth has been mixed.

The usage of a single quote bares no more weight than a tachyon

“The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism” Karl Marx

" Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism" Benito Mussolini

Trying to summarize a debate in a quote for humans is alas analogous to using a laser pointer to distract a cat – Myself

Dumb cartoon. The government is spending less under Obama than it did under Bush (actually, it always spends less under Democrats). And paying less than 2% taxes… if you’re going to make tiny tax rates available to Apple and Mitt Romney, why not to those who make a lot less than they do? Can we agree that Apple and Romney really shouldn’t be paying a lower tax rate than, say, a hamburger flipper? Who actually works harder and doesn’t even get insurance and paid vacation?

Oh you are wrong . Liberals also got targeted, but the rich run the papers, and the t-party cries and screams about everything, they live with a spirit of fear and paranoia.

“Apple pays 16 million dollars a day in taxes. Too bad taxocrats can spend even faster than that.”What was their reported profits? What percentage of those profits did they pay in taxes?

As one who relies on Apple technology, it pains me to see Apple hiding its profits. If I made $1 million this year, would you pat me on the back if I reported only $100,000 to the IRS? If what I did was legal would you admire me? You would not call me a cheat? You wouldn’t care that I am a lousy citizen?Apple is a corporation so I don’t expect it to be a good citizen, but I do object to rules written so that Apple and other corporations can avoid funding the system that makes them possible. Yes, Apple pays huge tax bills, but it fails to share the load.