Area Lawmaker Can’t Figure Out Why Company Doesn’t Want to Pay More Taxes

Looks like Democrats are using another play from the ‘You Didn’t Build That’ playbook:
 
Via Andrew Johnson at National Review:
 

Representative Keith Ellison (D., Minn.) just can’t wrap his head around why Apple wouldn’t “step up” to pay more in taxes.
 
“It seems to me they ought to want to help to pay the expenses of this country, so that everybody can have a fair shot,” Ellison said on MSNBC’s The Ed Show over the weekend.
 
Ellison found it “really disappointing” that Apple wasn’t willing to pay higher taxes, arguing that it “wouldn’t be a multi-billion-dollar corporation but for the fact that the United States of America made it possible for them to be that successful.”

Keith Ellison also apparently doesn’t understand irony, either. Here he’s citing a book preview from Apple iTunes on Twitter yesterday after attacking them:

“the quadrupling of average college tuition and room fees from the late 1970s to the early 2000s has put…” fromitunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZS…

— Rep. Keith Ellison (@keithellison) May 28, 2013