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MehGerbil15-Dec-14 3:30
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Mark_Wallace16-Dec-14 0:49
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MehGerbil16-Dec-14 1:34
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MehGerbil16-Dec-14 6:15
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I think Google should pay taxes.
I think government is necessary.

We agree on those two points.

What I find disturbing is that when it comes to American companies it seems to always be a matter of billions in fines. It seems to me that the technology has been around a very long time - perhaps attentive officials should be crafting tax law that addresses the issue long before it becomes this big of an issue.

How is it that Google gets around the rules (the law) when it is the government that can change the rules at any time? How inefficient and inept do politicians have to be in order to get beat at their own game? What? It is taking them two decades to figure out how search engines work? Sheesh.

I should think that if the European people are getting cheated out of good schools because Google is gaming the system then they should burn down the houses of their government ministers for being horribly incompetent boobs. The guys who make the rules are getting burned at their own game? Sound like a bunch of retards to me.
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Mark_Wallace17-Dec-14 21:41
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