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allendoerfer on July 16, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple has €13bn Irish tax bill overturned

> Or is it more like they have the monopoly of violence and we have to pay whatever they want or else?

You have to switch we and they. We are not Apple, but we are the people of a state.

fidelramos on July 16, 2020 [–]

I too have to pay whatever taxes the state determines, so I think "we" is the right pronoun here.

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