Employees of Apple "should be humiliated and ashamed" because of the iPhone company's "clearly sleazy" decision to minimize its corporate taxes, New York Times columnist David Brooks claims.
"The Apple corporation exists because of American institutions," Brooks writes, complaining that "Apple parked its intellectual property in an Irish subsidiary so it could avoid paying taxes in America and support those institutions. It saved $9 billion in 2012 alone."
We at the NO to 3 Committee were disappointed that Question 3 in Massachusetts passed in November, but we aren't disconsolate, and we aren't surrendering. Although Big Tranny raised $5.7 million in cash and in-kind contributions (versus the $652,000 in cash and in-kind raised by the two committees (Keep MA Safe- No on 3 and Vote NO to 3) opposed to the 2016 bathroom bill, we did not let our lack of financial resources count us out. Many of the principals of both committees faced a similar financial disadvantage in 2014 when we successfully repealed the automatic gas tax and we thought we could overcome that disadvantage again.
We at the NO to 3 Committee expected that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' October announcement to establish a legal definition of sex under Title IX, the federal civil rights law that bans gender discrimination in education programs that receive government financial assistance, would have given momentum to the bathroom bill repeal committees. That announcement reinforced why we voted NO to Question 3 in the November 6 Massachusetts general election in order to repeal the Bathroom Bill passed by the legislature and signed by Governor Charlie Baker. We voted NO to Question 3 to stop enabling the insanity of the gender dysphoric (aka "transgenders"). Gender dysphoria is not a civil right; it is a psychosexual mental disorder requiring intensive professional treatment beyond a once-a-week therapy session with a psychologist in Newton Centre.
