Apple’s Tactics Deserve Defending, Not Shaming

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."

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."…