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Woz: All Companies Should Pay 50 Percent in Taxes

posted by n1 on Monday April 25 2016, @06:51PM   Printer-friendly
from the render-unto-caesar dept.

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El Reg reports

Steve Wozniak has spoken out against Apple's tax affairs, saying all companies ought to pay 50 per cent in taxes.

Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live he said: "I don't like the idea that Apple might be unfair--not paying taxes the way I do as a person.

"I do a lot of work, I do a lot of travel and I pay over 50 per cent of anything I make in taxes and I believe that's part of life and you should do it."

Asked if Apple should pay that amount, he replied: "Every company in the world should."

According to Woz, money was never a factor when he started the biz with Steve Jobs 40 years ago. He added: "Steve Jobs started Apple Computers for money, that was his big thing and that was extremely important and critical and good."

Europe is currently scrutinising Ireland's tax arrangements with Apple over an alleged sweetheart deal with the company. Some have speculated the probe could lead to Apple paying $8bn in back taxes, even though the case is against the Irish government.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 26 2016, @04:15AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 26 2016, @04:15AM (#337303)

    I've never understood how self-professed Christians can reconcile their faith with this Randian idiocy.

    http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-49.htm [biblehub.com]

    Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.

    They were haughty and did an abomination before me. So I removed them, when I saw it.

    Seems the main sin of Sodom wasn't sodomy despite what many Christians prefer to believe.

    The whole Bible has way more verses talking about helping the poor and needy than punishing men who lie with other men as with a woman ( I don't actually see many verses explicitly against girl on girl action though ;) ).

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 26 2016, @05:46AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 26 2016, @05:46AM (#337327)

    I don't actually see many verses explicitly against girl on girl action though

    Romans 1:26-27

    26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

    27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

    >Sorry to spoil it for you.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 26 2016, @06:50AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 26 2016, @06:50AM (#337351)
      That's one verse and not explicit is it? It could be bestiality or something else?
      1) After all in nature there are plenty of animals doing girl on girl stuff. Go look it up. Even among primates (not the Catholic sort ;) ).
      2) It doesn't say that you are forbidden to do that. After all there are many disgusting, vile and bad things you can do that aren't forbidden by law. Like eating your own boogers.
      3) Notice there's no earthly punishment proscribed for it that's to be meted out by humans. Contrast with the guy-on-guy stuff where there's a severe punishment proscribed.

      I know what I'm talking about.