http://www.nbcbayarea.com/blogs/press-here/Apple-Has-More-Cash-Than-US-Government-126367843.html

Suckers.

I'm tempted to steal this and post it to Google+ (unless, of course, you posted it and I reshared it ).

Got it from Twitter. Knock yourself out.

Hilarious

This is why we give those big companies those tax breaks, so they can keep from going bankrupt.

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So they don't relocate overseas.

F' That . They wouldn't relocate if our import taxes were where they should be.

Raising tariffs would be a terrible idea. Other nations would simply raise tariffs and we'd be having price wars internationally. We live in an international community that depends on each component and raising tariffs would create complete chaos. Besides, the US depends on imports so much that we would truly be screwing ourselves over.

I have more money than the US government.

Sometimes there's no fixing what is already broken. We rely on imports because we let ourselves become a service nation. More and more jobs provide nothing but a service with no real product. As the product moves out we can't sustain ourselves on nothing. I understand the point you're making, but eventually we will have so little going out and so much coming in that it will be unsustainable on service alone. I suppose it's possible to turn things around by exporting more of the services we are moving to, but as a whole I doubt we ever can.

Agreed. The US is in a bind where we really can't just snap our fingers at the problem and make it disappear.