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Why deceptive? It shows how much their revenue was compared to how much they’d have to pay. No judgement, no misleads. Only facts. Anyone who reads can immediately have an idea of their financial strength. How does using profit help as opposed to revenue? And it’s not like FB can only use Canada’s profit to pay for expenses there.

Did you channel your own bias?






> It shows how much their revenue was compared to how much they’d have to pay.

I bought an oil tanker for $100,000,000, and sold it for $100,020,000. My revenue was $100,020,000, so an extra tax of $400,000 should be no problem for me, right?


It's billions in revenue vs millions in extra expense. There's the real deception.

Even their net income was over 60 billions.




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