One assumes that Apple is going to have to repatriate all that money from Ireland or Singapore, or wherever they have it stashed, and top up their tax payments to the U.S. rate that all non-internationally-operating U.S. companies pay, before Apple can rent or buy anything in the U.S.A.

Funny how such companies are quite happy to avoid paying their U.S. taxes by operating faux offices in such low tax countries, countries that are effectively blood sucking parasites that ride on the backs of every other country that has a corporate tax regime higher than 2.5%, and offer these companies nothing but a low corporate tax rate.

I wonder if such internationally operating U.S. companies ever think about how the U.S. finances all those carrier battle groups that keep the sea lanes safe for them to trade with the rest of the world? I doubt it ...