[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."