Apple’s investment decisions

I read Apple’s announcement totally differently than this piece does. Without partisanship, Apple is paying a very large sum to the US because the tax bill means they bring much more of their money to the US. They also announced they were going to invest a very large sum in American facilities, with further detail that they’re going to locate another big campus somewhere. The two things are not necessarily related but they may be: some of the cash being brought to the US is being put to use, which I would think from a purely financial perspective means there’s less need to find the cash for those uses. The undercurrent of the piece is that Apple is somehow supporting the Republicans, which in the mainstream media is currently frowned upon. This is the difference between policy and partisanship: partisanship means you can’t see that the policy enacted is having these effects – or at least some – meaning it’s generating a huge sum in taxes from Apple as they bring cash into the US, plus the simple fact that cash in a corporation has to be put to use so there is a relationship to corporate investment goals. Partisanship means you have to discard that this part of the policy appears to have a good effect because somehow you take that as meaning ‘all’ of it is good. That isn’t true: there can be and is good and bad. This one seems good. Other parts not so much. But if you can’t even have an open mind about something as straight forward as this, then you are blinkering yourself with partisanship.