Comment Re:Pay American taxes, or lose American support (Score 1) 292
Why does Apple get to lobby the government or expect the support of the government when they won't pay for it?
There is a profound misconception, shared even by intelligent and otherwise well-informed people, and it is that the ultra-rich and powerful people are, somehow, bound by nationality like the rest of us. That's not the case: the powerful US politicians have no allegiance to the US any more than they have to any other country, and would switch places with a prince in Bahrain in the blink of an eye, if they only spoke Arabic. And the bribes they take aren't from US companies only - far from it! International interests are regularly the lobbyists/bribers. Indeed the US armed forces do not protect the interest of the American people as much as they protect the interests of wealthy and powerful people of ANY nationality that has something to win from a war or conflict. All those wars to suppress the "red devil", they clearly weren't in the interest of the American people - they were in the interest of the entrenched international financial elite - as well as anyone who makes profit from arms sales.