> Is it truly in Google's interest to work towards the minimization of government capability wherever it is? This is the wrong perspective. They're working tow

> Is it truly in Google's interest to work towards the minimization of government capability wherever it is? This is the wrong perspective. They're working toward maximizing their profits, not minimizing their benefit to the state. $1 billion of taxes into the state does not even come close to producing $1 billion of benefit to themselves. Considering how much money gets distributed to parts of the state hundreds of miles away and how inefficiently (and sometimes wasted) the government handles money, it's probably fractions of a penny on the dollar that they actually get back in some benefit. Is it worth it to you to avoid taxes? Yep. Even if it means that your local school where your children actually go to gets a bit less money, you save a couple thousand dollars and the school misses out on a hundred bucks. The impact on you personally is beyond negligible.