more from<\/a> Algore.<\/p>\nALGORE: What the scientists tell us would take place if we did not is too awful to contemplate. We know that we have to, but to know is not enough. We need to tune out some of what they\u2019re telling us. Corporations are not people. Money is not speech.<\/p>\n
STUDENTS: (wild applause)<\/p>\n
ALGORE: We can afford to educate our young people.<\/p>\n
STUDENTS: (wild applause)<\/p>\n
ALGORE: We can afford to get quality health care. We can afford to clean up the environment. We can afford to seize our own destiny.<\/p>\n
RUSH: This is particularly disturbing, because these young skulls full of mush, are cheering Algore when he said two things: “Corporations are not people” and “money is not speech.” Well, of course corporations are people. What is a corporation if it isn\u2019t people? Now, let me attempt… By the way, Algore… Again, for those of you new here. Algore and his liberal ilk do not understand the basic laws of economics. Algore\u2019s no different than Obama on economics. And you see what a mess the Democrats have made customers. How can Algore understand the basic laws of physics, basic laws of science, if he is essentially illiterate on matters of economics? These people are not wizards of smart. They do not have all the answers. They are wrong all the time.<\/p>\n
Corporations are people. Let me talk about Apple again. Oh! And since I\u2019m gonna talk about Apple, let me read to you the quotes of this community college guy. This in the New York Times piece on Apple Saturday. I talked about it in the previous hour where they get crucified by the New York Times (chuckles) for not paying their fair share in taxes. And it is a hit piece, and it\u2019s filled with errors, commingling years of income versus taxes paid. They calculate taxes paid on incorrect years of income to come up with a lower percentage taxes paid. But Apple broke no law. They are totally within the bounds of the IRS tax code in everything they do tax wise. And so are all these other companies that are cited as doing the same things that Apple does.<\/p>\n
One of the things, for example, that Apple does, domestic sales — not all — but the domestic sales of digital stuff like software downloads from their app stores or songs and TV shows and movies from the iTunes store. Those sales get recorded in Nevada. They\u2019ve got a subsidiary set up in Nevada, and all the sales are recorded there. Apple has an office in Nevada. There\u2019s no corporate tax in Nevada. They pay no corporate tax on the sale of digital products. And the New York Times is outraged. They\u2019re livid over this. Because Apple\u2019s not in Nevada; Apple\u2019s in California. California ought to be getting a tax revenue, because California\u2019s in deep trouble. Education is underfunded, and the state budget is underfunded.<\/p>\n
At no point in this story — and I know it\u2019s a story on taxes and corporations, but still, there\u2019s not one reference to the irresponsible spending of governments here. Why is the state of California in trouble? It\u2019s not because Apple\u2019s doing anything. It\u2019s not Apple\u2019s fault. If the state were run like Apple is, everything would be hunky-dory. Apple\u2019s not the guilty party. Microsoft isn\u2019t the guilty party. Cisco\u2019s not the guilty party. The guilty party are the state\u2019s Democrats and whoever else. Republicans, too, if they\u2019re engaged in this wild, irresponsible borrowing and spending. And the same thing at educational institutions. You don\u2019t spend what you don\u2019t have. And then when you do, and you rack up a big deficit, you blame it on yourself if you have any moral fiber. You don\u2019t go blaming it on corporations that are doing their share.<\/p>\n
Why does Apple, why do corporations want to spend as little on taxes as possible? I\u2019ll tell you why. They want to be competitive with all the other corporations that are doing the same thing. They want to maximize shareholder value. They want to keep the price of their products low as they can so they can sell them. Everything a successful corporation does is oriented to two things: the stockholders and the customers. That\u2019s who their bosses are. This New York Times piece and all the critics in it think the purpose of a corporation is to provide health care for the employees, free Wi-Fi for the community where the corporation is, and unlimited money for governments to spend irresponsibly. That\u2019s what they think the purpose of a corporation is. And it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n
The purpose of a corporation is not to have jobs in the community. It\u2019s not to have health care for people. That\u2019s not why they exist. There isn\u2019t one person that started a business because he thought his community needed jobs or because he thought people in his town needed health care. That\u2019s not why people start businesses. Corporations are people. People work there. Stockholders own shares of stock. Who is it that\u2019s paying these taxes? It\u2019s people. Apple\u2019s employees pay taxes. Apple pays withholding taxes. It\u2019s absurd. I use that word a lot. It\u2019s absurd to believe, as the New York Times wants, to think that corporations don\u2019t pay their fair share.<\/p>\n
No law has been broken. It would be a different tune if they had evidence Apple was breaking the law. But they don\u2019t. So some of these little young bloggers in the Apple network all talk about how they\u2019re disappointed in Apple\u2019s lack of patriotism. See how it works? Patriotism equals paying taxes, more than you should. That\u2019s patriotism. Apple\u2019s not being a very good citizen. But this idea that corporations aren\u2019t people. I\u2019ll use Apple again as a means of explaining this. And I know, I know full well, I get e-mails from people telling me they\u2019re sick and tired of me talking about Apple. Well, deal with it. The same people, “Stop talking about golf. Stick to the issues.” Well, this is the issues.<\/p>\n
All Apple did is what Obama did. The Obamas paid as little taxes as they could. Warren Buffett\u2019s fighting a billion dollars owed in back taxes, privately. He doesn\u2019t want you to know that. In public, Buffett\u2019s running around saying he doesn\u2019t pay enough in taxes, so you love Buffett. But let\u2019s say you have an iPhone or an iPad, and you buy an app. Corporations aren\u2019t people. So you click on the app store, and there\u2019s an app and you want to buy, so you download it. Who put it there? How did it end up there? Some cyborg? Some giant robot? Who wrote the app? Who ran it by Apple for approval? Who at Apple approved it to put it in the app store? Then when you buy it, somebody is in Nevada recording the sale.<\/p>\n
On your desktop Mac, all of a sudden there\u2019s a notice that there\u2019s a software update. You ever thought, okay, where was it decided that today is the day they\u2019re gonna release the software update? Who wrote the software? Who determined it was ready to go? How many months, whatever was involved in testing, who did this? It\u2019s people. How much does the CEO know of all these intimate, intricate details, and how much does he delegate? Who knows? But it\u2019s people. All of this stuff is people. Corporations are people. They can\u2019t be anything else.<\/p>\n
What is a corporation? Some building where inside a bunch of evil chicanery is going on? Is that what it is? It\u2019s just a giant building, and inside nobody\u2019s allowed, and all this stuff happens where customers\u2019 lives are at stake. The CEO plots the death of the customer in the case he\u2019s a drug CEO, or Big Oil\u2019s in there plotting how to screw the consumer at the pump, kill the planet at the same time. But who is doing this? Do you realize how absurd it is to say corporations aren\u2019t people? That\u2019s all they are.<\/p>\n
I want to read you this quote from the junior college guy, De Anza College, community college near Apple in Cupertino. Don\u2019t go away.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: A lot of people are writing me: “Rush, what does the New York Times pay in taxes?” I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019ll guarantee you that they\u2019ve got a battery of tax lawyers that are taking advantage of every depreciation opportunity they can and writing off every loss they can. I guarantee you the New York Times is not paying a penny more than they think they have to, just like the Obamas aren\u2019t.<\/p>\n
But here comes a hit piece on Apple. “A mile and a half from Apple\u00c2\u2019s Cupertino headquarters is De Anza College, a community college.” Steve Wozniak attended. “Because of California\u00c2\u2019s state budget crisis, De Anza has cut more than a thousand courses and 8 percent of its faculty since 2008.” It\u2019s not Apple\u2019s fault, but the story wants you to think it is. “Now, De Anza faces a budget gap so large that it is confronting a ‘death spiral,\u2019 the school\u00c2\u2019s president, Brian Murphy, wrote to the faculty in January. Apple, of course, is not responsible for the state\u00c2\u2019s financial shortfall, which has numerous causes. But the company\u00c2\u2019s tax policies are seen by officials like Mr. Murphy as symptomatic of why the crisis exists.”<\/p>\n
So Apple\u2019s not to blame, but let\u2019s go get this community college guy and let him explain why Apple is to blame. “‘I just don\u00c2\u2019t understand it,\u2019 [Brian Murphy] said in an interview. ‘I\u00c2\u2019ll bet every person at Apple has a connection to De Anza. Their kids swim in our pool. Their cousins take classes here. They drive past it every day, for Pete\u00c2\u2019s sake. But then they do everything they can to pay as few taxes as possible.'” The sense of entitlement here is breathtaking. This guy that runs this community college thinks he\u2019s entitled to Apple paying more taxes than they have to \u2019cause his school\u2019s running a deficit.<\/p>\n
And then there\u2019s this. “Still, some, including De Anza College\u00c2\u2019s president, Mr. Murphy, say the philanthropy and job creation do not offset Apple\u00c2\u2019s and other companies\u00c2\u2019 decisions to circumvent taxes. … ‘When it comes time for all these companies — Google and Apple and Facebook and the rest — to pay their fair share, there\u00c2\u2019s a knee-jerk resistance,\u2019 Mr. Murphy said. ‘They\u00c2\u2019re philosophically anti-tax, and it\u00c2\u2019s decimating the state. But I\u00c2\u2019m not complaining,\u2019 he added. ‘We can\u00c2\u2019t afford to upset these guys. We need every dollar we can get.'”<\/p>\n
I kid you not. “They\u2019re philosophically anti-tax, and Apple\u2019s decimating…”<\/p>\n
No. The state legislature is, Mr. Murphy.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: I want to read this. I had to go too quickly. I read it too fast, and I, as such, botched some of the words. This Murphy guy, I\u2019m missing one page of it. But I don\u2019t need it. This is from the Saturday New York Times piece on Apple. Not breaking any law, but not paying their fair share of taxes. “A mile and a half from Apple\u00c2\u2019s Cupertino headquarters is De Anza College…” They have no business being in the story. They have absolutely nothing to do with Apple paying taxes, not a thing, in the real world. There is no connection whatsoever. But that doesn\u2019t matter. The Times found the guy, he\u2019s willing to say what The Times wouldn\u2019t say, and they establish a connection \u2019cause so many people have gone to this school.<\/p>\n
“A mile and a half from Apple\u00c2\u2019s Cupertino headquarters is De Anza College, a community college that Steve Wozniak, one of Apple\u00c2\u2019s founders, attended from 1969 to 1974.” How many years ago is that? Wozniak is out there touting Android these days. No. He\u2019s touting the Windows phone. His favorite phone is still the iPhone, but the Windows phone\u2019s about to take over, he says. Not even at Apple anymore.<\/p>\n
“Because of California\u00c2\u2019s state budget crisis, De Anza has cut more than a thousand courses and 8 percent of its faculty since 2008.” Fine. What\u2019s that got to do with the story on taxes paid by Apple? “Now, De Anza faces a budget gap so large that it is confronting a ‘death spiral,\u2019 the school\u00c2\u2019s president, Brian Murphy, wrote to the faculty in January. Apple, of course, is not responsible for the state\u00c2\u2019s financial shortfall, which has numerous causes.” Thank you, New York Times. I should add that Apple\u2019s not responsible for whatever\u2019s wrong at De Anza College, either. But that\u2019s not gonna stop the New York Times trying to make readers think it is.<\/p>\n
“But the company\u00c2\u2019s tax policies are seen by officials…” Officials? He\u2019s a president of a community college. This story could be about a widget maker. It doesn\u2019t matter to me that it\u2019s Apple. I didn\u2019t write the story. I\u2019m not the one that\u2019s got the problem here, but it\u2019s a teachable moment. “But the company\u00c2\u2019s tax policies are seen by officials like Mr. Murphy as symptomatic of why the crisis exists.” Yeah, Apple\u2019s success is why this junior college is cutting classes. Now, that makes a whole lot of sense, doesn\u2019t it? “‘I just don\u00c2\u2019t understand it,\u2019 [Brian Murphy] said in an interview. ‘I\u00c2\u2019ll bet every person at Apple has a connection to De Anza.'” I will bet you that not every person does. There\u2019s some 47,000 people at Apple. What, is the connection seeing it out the window when they drive to work?<\/p>\n
“Their kids swim in our pool. Their cousins take classes here.” I\u2019ll bet there\u2019s some widows and orphans at Apple, too. “They drive past it every day, for Pete\u00c2\u2019s sake,” he says. So? This is ridiculous. “Their kids swim in our pool. Their cousins take classes here. They drive past it every day, for Pete\u00c2\u2019s sake.” It\u2019s a quote. “Still, some, including De Anza College\u00c2\u2019s president, Mr. Murphy, say the philanthropy and job creation do not offset Apple\u00c2\u2019s and other companies\u00c2\u2019 decisions to circumvent taxes.” So there\u2019s nothing Apple can do. It can be philanthropic, it can hire many people, it can make much money, create great products at affordable prices for people, and that\u2019s still not enough for people like the guy that runs the community college. Because all of that doesn\u2019t offset Apple\u2019s decision to circumvent taxes.<\/p>\n
This guy at this community college is sitting there, he\u2019s an Obama voter, there\u2019s no question. Obama voters are made up of people who don\u2019t care that they\u2019re unemployed \u2019cause they\u2019re gonna be taken care of, and they like higher taxes because they know that\u2019s how they\u2019re gonna be supported, and that\u2019s this guy. To him, higher taxes mean better days for his school. “‘When it comes time for all these companies — Google and Apple and Facebook and the rest — to pay their fair share, there\u00c2\u2019s a knee-jerk resistance,\u2019 Mr. Murphy said. ‘They\u00c2\u2019re philosophically anti-tax, and it\u00c2\u2019s decimating the state. But I\u00c2\u2019m not complaining,\u2019 he added. ‘We can\u00c2\u2019t afford to upset these guys. We need every dollar we can get.'” This is Jekyll and Hyde.<\/p>\n
Throughout all of this article, Apple\u2019s mean, rotten, not paying their fair share, cutting classes, losing students, but I don\u2019t want to make \u2019em mad. I\u2019m not complaining. I need every dollar from them I can get. I\u2019m assuming The Times quoted the guy accurately. I fully expect Mr. Murphy to say he was misquoted in this. I would, if it were me. (laughing) I would say I was misquoted. So I fully expect him at some point to say so. Philosophically anti-tax, decimating… Mr. Murphy, what\u2019s decimating your state is the Democrat Party. What\u2019s decimating your state is liberalism, socialism, Marxism. What is decimating your state is irresponsible spending in Sacramento. That\u2019s what\u2019s decimating your state. Apple is not your problem, just like I\u2019m not your problem, although I\u2019m sure after today you think I am. And I might be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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<\/a>I\u2019ll just give you a little tease. After reading the story, one — and maybe it was more — but one young — I\u2019m sure young — blogger on a tech site expressed sadness and disappointment over the lack of patriotism shown by Apple in doing what it could to avoid paying taxes. Apple did nothing illegal. There\u2019s no law that they broke. This is the key point. There\u2019s another thing in this story. The New York Times used a really fringe think tank called the Greenlining Institute as their source for financial data. And what this group did, they compared Apple\u2019s taxes paid in a year previous to the year\u2019s income they were using to compare. I think it\u2019s an omission of ignorance. I don\u2019t think it was done purposely.<\/p>\n