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RE: Zero Tax on Small Businesses to Boost the Economy - A Crazy Idea?

in #economics7 years ago

The best part of this picture is the iPhone with the Apple Logo. Apple is the (maybe) most valuable company in the world. They are ruthless capitalists and try to patent everything and sue everyone.

All of their products are made by Foxconn a Taiwanese based company that has gigantic cities of workers on mainland China, including children, living in barracks and working in conditions little better than slaves.

Things are so bad there that it is not uncommon for the workers to commit suicide because of the poor working conditions and the feeling that they are "trapped" and that this the only way to free themselves from bondage.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bensin/2016/08/22/the-real-cost-of-the-iphone-7-more-foxconn-worker-deaths/#937b6fb55608

https://www.cnet.com/news/riots-suicides-and-other-issues-in-foxconns-iphone-factories/

Apple wants to do business so bad in China that they have agreed to follow the anti-freedom polices as laid down by the Chinese Communist Party. Money and profits rule.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/06/apple-china-censors-new-york-times

https://www.hongkongfp.com/2017/04/08/satirical-news-show-china-uncensored-censored-apple-hong-kong-taiwan/

Just like a Vegan who wears leather Nike shoes, I laugh at all the hipster snowflakes with their fruit phones.

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Apple, Google, Facebook and others need to be broken up. They are clearly becoming too powerful.