[Shivetya]

Lets see, politicians have created a system so complex they themselves cannot understand it. Then they act upset that someone else has to that others advantage and attempt to vilify them instead of acknowledging that the system is too complex.

Sounds about right. You would think that they would instead focus on making a system even they could understand.

[svenkatesh]

Actually, if you look at the video from the Senate hearing, some of the senators are clearly fawning over, and pandering to, Tim Cook.

It's disgusting.

[pvnick]

What's your point? I thought that senate hearing was disgusting because they were hammering away at Apple for obeying the law. Apple is an incredible success story and they should be lauded as an example of free markets, not vilified for trying to avoid giving extra money to the incompetent fools in congress.

Which would you prefer - successful companies that lawfully avoid paying too much in taxes while supporting western economies, advancing technology, and providing countless jobs? Or a top-heavy, zero-liabilty, exploitive government that, even as it grows unsustainably larger, still demands more and more, always chasing that unreachable pie-in-the-sky ideal of the "fair share."