Quotes

"Fascism and communism both promise "social welfare," "social justice," and "fairness" to justify authoritarian means and extensive arbitrary and discretionary governmental powers." - F. A. Hayek"

"Life is a Bungling process and in no way educational." in James M. Cain

Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Sir Winston Churchill

"summum ius summa iniuria" ("More laws, more injustice.") Cicero

As Christopher Hitchens once put it, “The essence of tyranny is not iron law; it is capricious law.”

"Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan

"Law is where you buy it." Raymond Chandler

"Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" Clarence Day

"If I feel like feeding squirrels to the nuts, this is the place for it." - Cluny Brown

"Oh, pshaw! When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have." Owen Wister "The Virginian"

Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Thomas More's definition of government as "a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.” ~ Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” ~ Jonathon Swift

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

The Senate is filled will dullards too! After getting reelected, an old fool senator might figure out that lower tax rates keep the revenue in the US!

Levin, the worm in the Apple.
Naw!!  They're Senator's (especially fools like Carl Levin who has played a big part in Detroit for his legacy) who can't be bothered with reason.
Good for Apple!
But there is a big bruise on the Apple's side, Jobs, his widow and much of the Apple Company still support the idiocy and phony policies of the left, while avoiding the taxes the left demands... go figure? m/r

Apple CEO: ‘We pay all the taxes we owe’

Betsi Fores 5-21-13


Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, defended his company’s corporate tax practices Tuesday morning at a Senate subcommittee hearing.
“We pay all the taxes we owe — every single dollar,” Cool said Tuesday on Capitol Hill.
The hearing of the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations was called by Democratic Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan over what he described as the company’s “creative tax gimmickry.”

$9 billion in taxes due three Apple subsidiary companies in Ireland that are required to pay no taxes to any country, despite paying $6 billion in taxes during 2012.
“They’ve created corporations that don’t exist anywhere for tax purposes,” Levin, chairman of the subcommittee, said. “That is right at the epitome of creative tax gimmickry.”
Cook pushed back on Levin’s assessment.
“We not only comply with the laws, but we comply with the spirit of the laws,” he said. “We don’t depend on tax gimmicks.”

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/21/apple-ceo-we-pay-all-the-taxes-we-owe/#ixzz2U2xaAAcG
Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)