Companies raising wages due to tax bill.

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(01-18-2018, 01:41 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Apple's big announcement.  I guess this one won't get any criticism, as Apple is purely wholesome, well intending, and not motivated by profits alone..

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/17/apple-announces-350-billion-investment-20k-jobs-over-5-years.html

[quote"We have a deep sense of responsibility to give back to our country and the people who help make our success possible," Cook said in a statement.
In 2016, then president-elect Donald Trump publicly called out Apple's reliance on its Chinese supply chain, telling The New York Times that he would "get Apple to build a big plant in the United States, or many big plants in the United States."]

So that is 38 billion collected in taxes to our government that otherwise would have remained overseas and not collected.

Not only will jobs be created, bonus's paid out, but also, our government collects too.