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And here is another Australian who says "Oi mate, Google don't want to pay taxes for profits they made in Australia. They don't want to invest in schools, unive
by chris_wot 6y ago
And here is another Australian who says "Oi mate, Google don't want to pay taxes for profits they made in Australia. They don't want to invest in schools, universities, infrastructure or anything else through reasonable taxation. Google are fucking over Australians".
- knorker 6y agoBut it's orthogonal. It's like you're saying you want to be fucked by both Google and the government. Why do two wrongs make a right, to you? Again: cutting off your nose to spite your face.
- shard972 6y agoWhy would it be a net loss to australia or any other nation if they instead just developed search engines locally? Is search really so impossible that only in America can they can possibly get enough talent to do web search? At a time when Australia is wanting to expand it's technology sector, seems like a simple solution if google just leaves and it's replaced by an local company that is willing to pay its fair share.
- chris_wot 6y agoNo, I want Google to pay taxes for profit they earned in Australia.
- knorker 6y agoOr-tho-go-nal. Cutting off your nose to spite your face does not stop your face from doing whatever it did to make you spite it. Non sequitur. Orthogonal. Unrelated. Irrelevant. You can be against google fucking you and the Australian government fucking you. These are not mutually exclusive.
- nojvek 6y agoGoogle is a for profit entity which is legally bound to optimize value for shareholders. Therefore they will follow whatever taxation laws there are. Same with Amazon, MSFT, Apple etc. Change the tax laws. Google isn’t doing anything wrong (morally yes, legally no). It’s how public corporations work.