https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2012/12/11/economic-micawberism-how-the-left-places-progressive-ideals-above-economic-survival/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 06:48:16 -0400<![CDATA[Thus, Starbucks promises that it will voluntarily increase the amount of tax that it pays to the British treasury, even if the company is running at a loss. Why? Because Starbucks has “learned it is vital to listen closely to our customers,” and Starbucks’s customers are among the huge swaths of the British public that, having bought lazily into the notion that corporations do not pay “enough” in income tax, never stop to think what that actually means. As David Giampaolo and Geoffrey Wood asked in the Guardian last week, “Why is it unethical to comply with the law? That is precisely what anyone who claims a company is immoral if it legally minimizes its tax is saying.”]]>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:30:31 -0500<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2012/12/11/economic-micawberism-how-the-left-places-progressive-ideals-above-economic-survival-n280560