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> Apple is the largest taxpayer in the US and has paid almost $45 billion in domestic corporate income taxes over the past five years alone.

They just had to slip this in there. If they were taxed appropriately on the money over seas we would see an additional $10billion. Being the least scummy in a field rife with tax evasion isn't saying much.

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> Apple’s contributions in the US have significantly outpaced the company’s original five-year goal of $350 billion set in 2018

So it's only upping the amount it had already pledged. So they were already doing it anyway

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Tax evasion is allowed by the people you elect, and you know it. Any unelected corporation can only be bound by the laws and system that it is a part of.

If you really want to change things then start speaking out against any and all politicians in bed with private actors (for ANY political party, btw) -- not overly-focusing on just "those politicians who disagree with you on abortion" or something else insanely and profoundly silly.

Also, if you really, and I mean truly, despise the way things are then stop complaining on the internet and run for local office? Then if that goes well, run for a higher office? Just an idea. But an idea that the vast majority of us on HN never take seriously.