[DoughtyOne]

I understand your viewpoint. I would remind you that we don’t have an under-taxation problem. We have an over-spending problem.

Government destroys money. The private sector grows it.

Government spending is not self-sustaining.

Private enterprise is.

Anyone who can avoid taxes legally, is doing the Lord’s work as far as I am concerned.

One thing to take into consideration here, is this was taking place in Britain

[Vanders9]

Of course we primarily have an over-spending problem, but the solution to that, surely, is to reduce spending, which is a separate issue to this.

The issue here is that a very large, very powerful corporation is using its ability to afford very good tax lawyers to squirrel its substantial profits overseas away from the tax man. I don't doubt it's all legal and I'm quite sure that a good chunk of the motivation of the authors of the article is envy, but that doesn't make what Starbucks has done ethical. After all, as a private citizen, I dont have access to the legal loopholes they do.

I am taking the fact that this is in Britain into consideration. I'm a UK freeper.