Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 29th Apr 2012 12:22 UTC
"Apple, the world's most profitable technology company, doesn't design iPhones here. It doesn't run AppleCare customer service from this city. And it doesn't manufacture MacBooks or iPads anywhere nearby. Yet, with a handful of employees in a small office here in Reno, Apple has done something central to its corporate strategy: it has avoided millions of dollars in taxes in California and 20 other states." Sure, this is all legal for companies to do (and Apple obviously isn't alone) but it does show you how much sense of morality companies have. Answer: none. But hey, it's legal, and the law is never wrong, right?
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Lee, you are being toyed with. It's trollish, but your reading comprehension needs work.
Jesuspower is not saying you personally threaten, but that society in general does. This is a form of speech in English, for example when someone says "you just have to laugh sometime", that saying isn't directed at a particular person but at a generic humanity. So he/she is saying that society has chosen a tax system that threatens anyone who doesn't comply*. I think you have to agree that this is a fact, no matter what your opinion on the morality of taxation is.
*Obviously this same society lets high-powered politicians and bureaucrats get away with complete non-compliance to the very rules they vote into place. but we all know that.