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Old 06-28-2013, 06:05 AM   #60
MattW
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
The UK government has no choice in the matter; it has to abide by EU tax law, which makes it perfectly legal to move profits between EU member states. This is something that was discussed in the recent G8 Summit meeting in Northern Ireland. But unless or until EU law is changed, I strongly disagree with your assertion that it's "near-criminal" to act in accordance with the law. Blame the law, not the people who obey it.
Your world-view is ridiculously clear-cut. First, despite what the US Supreme Court might want you to believe, corporations are not "people".

Secondly, by lobbying lawmakers, corporations get the laws they want; so more often than not, "the people [I can't even quote this without throwing up a little in my mouth] who obey it" actually make "the law" -- either illegaly or semi-legally or by blackmail ("if we do not get the tax breaks we want, we'll take our jobs elsewhere").

You're damn right, I'm blaming Amazon (and all the other corporations). And rightly so -- the artificial distinction that you make between "the law" and the stupid EU on the one side and the poor corporations on the other side is pretty naive at best or outright disingenious at worst. I don't know which.
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