Rand Paul
WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 21: (L-R) Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee's Investigations Subcommittee member Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) speaks during a hearing on U.S. tax code, saying the committee should apologize to Apple Inc. instead of 'dragging' them into a hearing about the company's offshore profit shifting and tax avoidance, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill May 21, 2013 in Washington, DC. A Congressional report released yesterday said that Apple, America's most profitable technology company, used a complex system of international subsidiaries and tax avoidance efforts to shift at least $74 billion out of the reach of the Internal Revenue Service between 2009 and 2012.
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This problem is solely and completely created by the awful tax code ... If anyone should be on trial here, it should be Congress. I frankly think this committee should apologize to Apple.
It's an irony you cannot overcome
I am offended by a $4 trillion government bullying, berating and badgering one of America’s greatest success stories. Tell me one of these politicians up here that doesn’t minimize their taxes. Tell me a chief financial officer that you would hire if he didn’t try to minimize your taxes legally. Tell me what Apple has done that is illegalMore quotes »
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