It's not your decision to make, Bernie, whether a price is "unacceptable." That belongs to the people making the purchase, not a government bureaucrat who imagines he knows what a thing ought to cost. If the price is too high, men don't buy it, and Apple lowers it. That is the only authority required: the free judgment of the buyer.
You want to talk greed? Greed is wanting what you did not earn and seizing it by force. Cook offered you a phone you are free to refuse. You offer the public nothing and demand the power to dictate terms to a company you never built, with money you never made.
Apple's "profits" are millions of voluntary choices to trade. Your career is the opposite: taking by law what men would not give you by choice. One of you produced the value. The other just wants the power to command it.
The greed isn't in Cupertino. It's in the Senate seat that confuses a vote with ownership of other people's work.
@KihneSheila It’s also a terrible strategy. We’re not voting to create a feel good story. We’d actually like somebody intelligent to do the job properly.
@SenTinaSmith It’s literally like you’re a nine-year-old. Maybe there are some things going on that you’re not aware of. I do not find that hard to believe.
@MinnesotaDFL@peggyflanagan Oddly, despite decades of DFL control in Minnesota, life has become less affordable. Weird. It's like you never look to see the impact of your actions.
@MinnesotaDFL Actually, thanks to all of the taxpayers who are paying for this. The DFL has simply decided and taken credit. The rest of us do the hard part and get none.