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No, blame Apple. And the other companies exploiting these laws. Companies can choose to be good citizens and socially responsible. Apple doesn't need to be environmentally friendly - it chooses to. $14.5bn is a drop in the ocean of their $200bn cash stockpile that they can't even use, they can easily pay this. It's not going to hurt their ability to compete even if everyone else is doing it.

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Billion not Million, although still a small number in respect to 200bn its 7%. But I think you have to look at it in terms of the magnitude of the number, its easy to make it look small in comparison to their reserves but 14 billion is still enough to power a whole lot of economic growth.

I edited my comment as I was aware it was billion not million, it was just a typo. I think my point still stands though. If Apple were to pay the correct tax and MS, Google, FB still didn't Apple has so much money that it doesn't effect their ability to compete. In other words they can still win without playing this game.

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