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Agreed. Living in SF it isn't so much that people are mad about the buses but more that it appears that google doesn't help out the rest of the community. Acros

Agreed. Living in SF it isn't so much that people are mad about the buses but more that it appears that google doesn't help out the rest of the community. Across the street from the google bus stop Mission High still struggles to educate their students. Regular folks are a little puzzled that google and apple together have more cash on hand than the entire state of california's revenue in 2012 [1]. There is a lot of discussion about the morality of the current wealth disparity in the united states. Google will need to decide for themselves if creating their own separate bus system and semi private airport [2] rather than working to improve the one that everybody else shares falls under the motto "don't be evil". [1] http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2012-13-EN/pdf/Enacted/BudgetSummary/RevenueEstimates.pdf http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2012-13-EN/pdf/Enacted/BudgetSumma... [2] http://paloalto.patch.com/groups/politics-and-elections/p/nasa-ames-under-scrutiny-for-google-planes-again http://paloalto.patch.com/groups/politics-and-elections/p/na...

walshemj 13y ago
well it woudl really help if CA didn't have government by referendum and people stopped voting for jam today rather than investing in the future.
mc-lovin 13y ago
Google and its employees pay taxes. Can you explain why Google or its employees owe more to the community than every other company/person?
- chuckcode 13y ago
  According to current law they don't owe anything more [1]. That doesn't mean that other people have to like it, even monkeys get upset when they feel like things aren't fair [2] . I think it is an open question about how companies like google will keep up good relations with their neighbors in the longer term. [1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-21/google-2-4-rate-shows-how-60-billion-u-s-revenue-lost-to-tax-loopholes.html http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-21/google-2-4-rate-sho... [2] http://dailypicksandflicks.com/2012/04/26/monkey-fairness-experiment-video/ http://dailypicksandflicks.com/2012/04/26/monkey-fairness-ex...
  - mc-lovin 13y ago
    So all these issues would go away if Google paid roughly the same effective corporate tax rate as other companies? I think the real issue is that people feel especially entitled to a share of Google and its employee's earnings, which still makes no sense to me. If by "neighbors" you mean the local community, then I don't see why Google owes anything in particular to the local community. They already pay local, state and federal taxes. If a rich guy moved next door to me, I wouldn't expect him to contribute more to the local community just because he happened to live near me. Furthermore, trying to extract rent from companies will fail in the long run since they are free to move within the US.
    - greenyoda 13y ago
      "Furthermore, trying to extract rent from companies will fail in the long run since they are free to move within the US." Or out of the U.S., for that matter. IBM is thought to now have more employees in India than in the U.S.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_India https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_India

walshemj 13y ago

well it woudl really help if CA didn't have government by referendum and people stopped voting for jam today rather than investing in the future.

mc-lovin 13y ago

Google and its employees pay taxes. Can you explain why Google or its employees owe more to the community than every other company/person?

chuckcode 13y ago
According to current law they don't owe anything more [1]. That doesn't mean that other people have to like it, even monkeys get upset when they feel like things aren't fair [2] . I think it is an open question about how companies like google will keep up good relations with their neighbors in the longer term. [1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-21/google-2-4-rate-shows-how-60-billion-u-s-revenue-lost-to-tax-loopholes.html http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-21/google-2-4-rate-sho... [2] http://dailypicksandflicks.com/2012/04/26/monkey-fairness-experiment-video/ http://dailypicksandflicks.com/2012/04/26/monkey-fairness-ex...
- mc-lovin 13y ago
  So all these issues would go away if Google paid roughly the same effective corporate tax rate as other companies? I think the real issue is that people feel especially entitled to a share of Google and its employee's earnings, which still makes no sense to me. If by "neighbors" you mean the local community, then I don't see why Google owes anything in particular to the local community. They already pay local, state and federal taxes. If a rich guy moved next door to me, I wouldn't expect him to contribute more to the local community just because he happened to live near me. Furthermore, trying to extract rent from companies will fail in the long run since they are free to move within the US.
  - greenyoda 13y ago
    "Furthermore, trying to extract rent from companies will fail in the long run since they are free to move within the US." Or out of the U.S., for that matter. IBM is thought to now have more employees in India than in the U.S.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_India https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_India