The United States government came to the defense of Apple on Wednesday regarding the Cupertino-based company’s multi-billion dollar European tax bill. The Treasury Department released a white paper that took the European Commission to task for demanding billions of euros in underpaid taxes from Apple and other U.S.-based companies. JPMorgan (NYSE: JPM) estimate Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) could owe as much as $19 billion, or about 17 billion euros, according to the Financial Times. The Treasury Department…