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I usually would refrain from ancknowleging clearly ignorant and trollish comments, but yours is too stupid to resist. First the laws in question that enable profit shifting for digital firms were enacted pre-internet (which means pre-Google by the way).

As for your evidence-free assertion about lobbying, let's assume it's true, Google lobbies more than those corps combined, does that mean that these three you mention, who employ similar tax reduction techniques are proactivly lobbying to pay more taxes?! And are we to believe that these tech companies you mention are the only ones who "lobby" on tax issues or otherwise?!

Again, your comment is idiotic.


Perhaps accusing Google specifically is a bit stretched too far but it's true all cash-rich corporations including Google and Apple with billions tied up overseas are lobbying congress to be able to bring the cash back to USA without paying standard tax rate on it.


That is true, and there might be a decent argument for it (bringing the cash to invest in the US).

But the comment I replied to was implying that Google lobbying alone was responsible for all that is wrong in the world, and even the valiant efforts of Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook couldn't stop it.


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