Apple’s Tim Cook Has Billions of Reasons to Raise Money for the GOP

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Apple CEO Tim Cook’s fundraising breakfast for House Speaker Paul Ryan on Tuesday was the talk of Silicon Valley. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi speculated that it was a silly mistake. “Poor Tim. What a nice guy he is, but somebody gave him bad advice,” she told the San Francisco Chronicle. “He probably doesn’t think that much about politics.”

Cook, after all, has been outspoken in his opposition to Republican-backed anti-LGBT measures and has refused to provide any support for the Republican convention on account of Donald Trump’s more virulent positions.

But the bottom line is the bottom line.

Apple has billions of dollars stored in subsidiaries in offshore tax havens — about $181 billion, in fact — more than any other U.S. corporation. And he needs Republican help to be allowed to bring it back to the U.S. without paying the statutory 35 percent corporate tax rate.

https://theintercept.com/2016/06/28/apples-tim-cook-has-billions-of-reasons-to-raise-money-for-the-gop/

[NWCorona]

1. "But the bottom line is the bottom line." This says a lot.

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2. "loot wins". nt

[Bluenorthwest]

3. I agree with Nancy but then again I already avoid Apple products because of their corporate

culture and marketing language which I find to be very unattractive.

[Herman4747]

4. Sad, quite sad. I had thought well of him. n/t