The contradiction of aggressive tax avoidance

“The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all companies could make money off the Internet.” Barack Obama Whether the Internet was invented “so that all companies could make money from” it, is debateable, but there is no doubt that this is what has happened. The Internet is a resource paid for by taxpayers and used by countless companies without them having to make any payment back to the taxpayers who funded its development. How many private companies would be so generous? Yet these same companies think they have no moral responsibility to…

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