Comment by jrm4
1 day ago
Unlike the big companies who do this, which often are merely impure scams on tax payer money a little more downstream.
1 day ago
Unlike the big companies who do this, which often are merely impure scams on tax payer money a little more downstream.
Companies that generate loads of corporation tax, income tax, and VAT revenue are the exact opposite of wastes of public money.
Yes, when they do so proportional to what they take, especially as compared to individuals and their tax liabilities.
You'll have to let me know when that finally happens, because that ain't now.
Sorry, I've no idea how to read your first sentence.
Your second one - that's how everything public is paid for. Private individuals pay tax, either through their corporations paying corporation tax or the tax bill on top of their wage bills, which a) drives up prices of the goods and services they offer, or depresses wages, and b) funds all the public sector employees and orgs that don't pay tax (orgs) or don't pay net tax (employees).
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Great, now we're defending embezzlement and fraud with public funds on HN, because we really really hate big business.
A child caught doing something bad will cry "but my friends also did it!", is that the level of reasoning hackers want to be at?
That seems like a bad faith read to me. Nobody is defending it, just pointing out the irony / hypocrisy. Two things can be bad, and they can be related.
You'd be surprised to hear then that I'm not the owner of any big company which embezzles tax payer money, and have never been involved in such.
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There are no hackers around here anymore. HN is mainly about business nowadays
HN has always discussed business
What part of that said "defense?"
They can both be bad.
> Great, now we're defending embezzlement
I might be missing something, but I don’t see anyone defending the the scams.