Correct. Which is why it’s a bad term to use.

Is it hard to type while bent over so impressively?

I think it was Radiolab that talked about Louisiana’s infrastructure beginning to fail due to their almost 100% approval of tax waivers to large companies. They reversed course by making those meetings public. Suddenly waivers stopped being granted. https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/legislature/arti…

I assume no one is surprised by this. The bigger a company gets, the less tax it pays. This is how capitalism works, and why capitalism is inherently broken.

I hope more countries crack down on this behavior.

Everyone complains about benefits fraud and poor people supposedly cheating the system, but when rich corporations do it it’s just a feature of doing business.

Oligopoly at it’s finest.

Rockstar North has used tax programs and other smart accounting to avoid paying corporate taxes in the UK for years

“...and other smart accounting...”

The biggest receivers of welfare are giant corporations.

I call bullshit. This should only happen after a ten minute long follow mission, a short period of stealthy and/or exceedingly violent transition across the lobby, then a longass cutscene showing how edgy the entire tax dodge was.

If there’s a loophole out there, they’ll use it. That’s why they pay their lawyers the big bucks.

Sure you can. Laws have two components, the letter of the law and the intent. It’s the whole point of having a judiciary branch.

I mean... is there a more libertarian game than GTA?

They exposed data for 147 million people, and they only have to pay $31 million for that?

What if you don’t know about it now, and don’t do anything by the deadline (~6 months). But, 3 years down the road your identity gets stolen and you try to do something about it but you can’t, because you waived your right by not doing anything.

Problem is the leak may not impact you until much later, and might cost you much more than the $125 they are offering. 

This is the part that infuriates me. How’s the F can I waive my right to sue by not doing anything. Class action should always be OPT-IN. I will not spend time, effort and money to mail an opt-out notification. WTF judge allowed this?

A note to all of the “I don’t tip because it’s a broken system, and it won’t get fixed until we stop playing along” types:

Americans hate the idea of paying everyone fairly. They love tipping because it lets them personally decide who they want to give money too, they’re basically narcissistic toddlers.