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Meanwhile, back at the ranch
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3978…Ethical questions
Even if the tax avoidance structures are legal, not everyone considers them ethical. Google is "flying a banner of doing no evil, and then they're perpetrating evil under our noses," says Abraham J. Briloff, a professor emeritus of accounting at Baruch College who has examined Google's tax disclosures. "Who is it that paid for the underlying concept on which they built these billions of dollars of revenues? It was paid for by the United States citizenry," Briloff says, referring to the fact that Google's initial technology was based in part on research done at Stanford University and funded by the National Science Foundation. Profit-shifting arrangements such as Google's cost the U.S. government as much as $60 billion in annual revenue, according to Kimberly A. Clausing, an economics professor at Reed College in Portland, Ore.The bottom line: Google has built a complicated international structure that sends most of its overseas profits to the tax haven of Bermuda.
In other words, fuck you Google, you can have my AdWords $, but don't act like you're some liberal grass roots supporter, when you're fucking not. You're a corporate giant.
- shut your ignorant mouth.DrBombay
- follow your own advice********
- seriously of every blogger on QBN DrBombay displays the most faggotry and is the biggest douchebagbliznutty
- as well the Dr is annoyingly dumb and childish.. and should seriously consider suicidebliznutty
- Were you wearing a balaclava when you said this? Did you smash a starbucks window right after?DrBombay
- < my point is made.. thank youbliznutty
- I fail to understand the hate, based upon the post. "Paid for with US Citizenry". isn't that what the protests are about?********