Facebook Will Pay No Taxes, Get Huge Refund Instead

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But the executives who received these options will have to pay taxes on them so it's not all bad.

Do you really think that tax income adds up to more than what they lost and gave away to Facebook?

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Every single person here should be incredibly concerned about the growth of Facebook, it's integration into virtually all aspects of life, and how it provides a means for corporate interests -- or really, anyone with money to spend -- to track every public movement and thought of yours at all times.

With all the paranoia surrounding government surveillance and them knowing so much about us, people don't seem to be all that concerned with private entities tracking down and owning their information and pictures for corporate profit.

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This is disgusting.  Capitalism blows.

It's Corporatism. That's the whole issue. People mistake a "hands-off" approach as something that will bring them that much closer to pure capitalism because of the haphazard rhetoric being thrown around all the time. In reality all it does is push us closer to falling off an economic cliff into some sort of corporate autocracy. We have a political system infested with profiteers in office with no intention to actually benefit their constituents. And we have a powerful oligarchical media structure that reinforces it by keeping the public either uninformed or misinformed.