{"id":179662,"date":"2017-12-04T19:54:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T00:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/12\/04\/there-it-wasnt-so-hard\/"},"modified":"2017-12-04T19:54:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T00:54:00","slug":"there-it-wasnt-so-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/12\/04\/there-it-wasnt-so-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"There, It Wasn&#8217;t So Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After much complaining, <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2017\/12\/apple-agrees-to-pay-over-15-billion-to-ireland-in-back-taxes\/\">Apple agrees to pay over $15,400,000,000,00 in taxes to Ireland, and Ireland agreed to take it<\/a> after complaining mightily.<\/p>\n<p>Neither of them wanted that to happen.&nbsp; Apple cut a tax deal with Ireland, that the EU deemed an illegal subsidy, and so Apple had to pay back taxes, which Ireland objected to even more than Apple.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, Ireland&#8217;s economic model is to be an economic vassal of multinational corporations, and so they don&#8217;t want to collect taxes due.<\/p>\n<p>Think of it as Amazon&#8217;s 2<sup>nd<\/sup> city competition writ even larger.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d call it corporate welfare, but it&#8217;s more like extortion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After much complaining, Apple agrees to pay over $15,400,000,000,00 in taxes to Ireland, and Ireland agreed to take it after complaining mightily. Neither of them wanted that to happen.&nbsp; Apple cut a tax deal with Ireland, that the EU deemed an illegal subsidy, and so Apple had to pay back taxes, which Ireland objected to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,371,630,437,480,382],"class_list":["post-179662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-regulation","tag-taxes","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}