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Lobby for a sane tax system that encourages re-investment.
by albertop 8y ago
Lobby for a sane tax system that encourages re-investment.
- xs567 8y agoRe-investment - like into things like providing your employees with free food, a fancy mobile app for your canteen menus and free cooking lessons? Meanwhile ca. 850m people (1 in 8 of the world's population) are starving globally.
- whatshisface 8y agoThey aren't starving because of Google, they're starving because of the dysfunctional governments in those countries. Donating can make it worse because a sufficiently dysfunctional society can pervert anything.
- xs567 8y agoSorry, in which country does paying tax = 'donating'?
- whatshisface 8y agoGoogle isn't liable for very much taxation in Somalia...
- xs567 8y agoWith respect you're being pointlessly petty. The argument is not that Google should donate to starving people in countries in which it's not operative. The argument is that instead of further pampering it's extremely privileged workforce indirectly via reinvestment or directly via higher pay, it should contribute more back to the global society from which it profits by paying its taxes fairly. How can you argue aginst this when Google workers are collectively amongst the best remunerated in the world, Google is notorious for massive-scale tax avoidance and hundreds of millions of men, women and children around the globe are dying because they lack basic resources for life: Food, water and healthcare. Each to his or her own I guess.
- whatshisface 8y agoThe United States government is not the "global community." Paying taxes to the US government does little to combat death and starvation in third world countries. Maybe we can think of some good reasons for Google to contribute to American society, but starvation in third world countries is a red herring.
- matchbok 8y agoGlobal starvation is not Google's problem.