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Microsoft put their tax-evasion in writing and now they owe $29 billion. (pluralistic.net)

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[-] Astroturfed@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Don't forget to read down to the part where they are planning to continually tie this up in court until a Republican lets them off. Same thing they did with the anti-trust lawsuit. Same shit different day until something changes. I'll believe they pay this when I see it happen.

[-] PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

They'll get their $29 billion fine reduced to like $3.50 one way or another

[-] SuperJetShoes@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

UK here. Can they do the maths for us too please?. Just a few billion would let us employ a few thousand more doctors.. That'd be awesome..Thx.

[-] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 11 points 1 year ago

That implies the doctors would actually be seeing any of that.

[-] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately, it turns out that, in retrospect, the billions did not quite have the desired effect and the health system is just as fucked as it was before, but - unrelated: have you seen my new yachts? They're even bigger than those of my cronies!

[-] ServeTheBeam@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I don’t know much about the UK. Is there a doctor shortage there?

[-] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 5 points 1 year ago

From the UK, the NHS is in a pretty bad state. Long wait times, overworked and underfunded doctors to the point some of them are moving for better pay overseas, possible management issues (anecdotal, read on Reddit years ago) are to name a few. While not unique to it, there's a certain pride to the NHS being a success for socialised healthcare so to see it in the state it's in can be extremely frustrating especially as someone living in the UK.

[-] cynar@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

The NHS's problems are by design, rather than inherent. There would be a lot of money to be made by converting us to a private health system, like America. Unfortunately, a lot of the people who could make that money are friends and/or backers of the Tories.

Their plan is to starve the NHS until it collapses. They can then step in with solutions to fix it (and be hailed as heroes). Unfortunately for them, the staff of the NHS are... stubborn. They are holding the NHS together despite the attempts to kill it.

[-] Hyzerflip@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

Just imagine, this ONE company out of the hundreds if not thousands pulling this same shit are brought into compliance (and by compliance, I mean what they ethically should be paying in taxes), then how much good we COULD be doing as a nation. I say that but also have no doubts that the elected officials will just use it as their personal piggy bank to fund their friends companies.

[-] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Don't worry, there may not have been much trickling down in the last few decades YET, but I was told that was juuust about due any decade now...

[-] Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

For the conservatives, this is 2900 Abrams tanks or 362 1/2 F-35A fighters.

[-] Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Can I have some

[-] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Dibs!

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 year ago

Believe it or not, that's standard practice. Everyone wants the lowest taxes

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I pay what I believe I owe, not what I believe I can get away with. Most people do.

[-] YeetPics@mander.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

Maybe reclaim some of gates' land he's been buying up and turn it all into public land?

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