So my comment isn't very specific, but don't you agree that at some point in time for a business, bureaucracy, tax rules and governments can really get in the way of things? Rather than being critical about companies not paying taxes, we need to either look at closing loopholes, or make paying taxes easier/less restrictive/cheaper.
I will not allow you to move the goalposts. You claimed that Apple would pay five times more were they not undergoing their accounting shenanigans (which would, for those keeping track at home, be 49% of net as tax) and would not be able to hire due to it. That is what I mean by fucking farcical--because you decided it would be totally groovy to make shit up out of whole cloth and blithely assert it to be true.
Coupled with the "closing loopholes" dog-whistle--to reasonable people who have not ceded their thinking to Ayn Rand, this should not be in the same statement as anything related to "lower taxes"--and I have a great deal of trouble finding a good-faith reason to think better of you than "disingenuous."
It's highly unlikely Apple tries to offset any guilt it may have over tax avoidance by hiring a few extra people. Ignoring a few inefficiencies, companies try to minimise (in cost and number) their workforce in order to maximise profits. If they can get away with their current tax structure then they're only losing money by hiring more staff.
