{"id":7306,"date":"2012-04-29T19:46:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T19:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=7306"},"modified":"2012-04-29T19:46:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T19:46:35","slug":"californias-insufficient-bite-of-the-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/californias-insufficient-bite-of-the-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"California&#8217;s insufficient bite of the Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/04\/29\/business\/apples-tax-strategy-aims-at-low-tax-states-and-nations.html?hp\">shocked<\/a> that Apple seeks to minimize its liability under California\u2019s exorbitant tax rates by moving profits to lower taxing states and countries.\u00a0 The paper melodramatically suggests in a front page \u201cexpose\u201d today that the economic woes of a local community college, attended in the early 1970s by Apple founder Steve Wozniak, are directly related to Apple\u2019s stinginess.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., and other Times executives employ tax attorneys for their personal finances or for those of the paper.\u00a0\u00a0 And if Apple paid more taxes in California, how much would reach the classrooms of Cupertino\u2019s De Anza College, as opposed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/2011\/cjc0714hm.html\">bankrolling the thousands of diversity bureaucrats<\/a> throughout the state\u2019s university and college systems, not to mention funding astronomical public employee union benefits or bloated<br \/>\ngovernment agencies and their ineffective social uplift programs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Times can\u2019t contemplate that the solution to tax avoidance is to lower taxes and reduce the magnitude of government spending.\u00a0\u00a0 It&#8217;s too bad that the titans of Silicon Valley don&#8217;t have the guts to speak out about the economic realities that drive business decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times is shocked that Apple seeks to minimize its liability under California\u2019s exorbitant tax rates by moving profits to lower taxing states and countries.\u00a0 The paper melodramatically suggests in a front page \u201cexpose\u201d today that the economic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/californias-insufficient-bite-of-the-apple\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7308,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7306\/revisions\/7308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}