Google operates fully within the tax law. It just so happens to be they paid very little in the US. Maybe citizens should take note and demand that their tax rates be lowered accordingly. Why is it that corporations can expense away their office buildings but citizens can't expense away their homestead, save some penance of standard deductions. It's foolishness. The solution might not be to hammer corporations, but to make our tax laws more competitive so that our shining star growth industry doesn't have such intense motivation to operate abroad so heavily. We have the second highest tax rate for corporations in the world, with Japan being slightly higher (and their economy has now had nearly 2 lost decades of growth). It's not a popular position on Slashdot, but the truth is, you can't continue to bludgeon the same people you wish would hire all of your friends.

Because pumping oil out of the ground sucks really bad.

They pretend as if leftist, statist, anti-capitalist views aren't equally as blinding to their own ability to think as religion is to their adverse party.

Don't worry AC. You'll be moderated down to -1 just as soon as the slashdot crew here figures out you're not an "if only I could toss Obama's salad I would be such a happier" leftist, anti-capitalist, statist zombie.

Interesting how the students who went to school with that character described him as an "extreme leftist." The notion that the fellow was a Ron Paul supporter was completely debunked mere minutes after Keith Olbermann and crew tried to tie him to it.

If I had mod points, I'd mod you up. This is the absolute fucking truth. I'm so fucking tired of the anti-capitalists on slashdot. It's the most annoying aspect about the site.

Completely agree.

I suppose you just love the Obama cum load you get to swallow every time you go to it? Better watch out, I hear he likes to have his salad tossed. But having Obama asshole all over your face is probably right up your alley.

Not every administration runs and is elected purely on the notion that it will "be different from all of those other administrations that you've hated for so long."

Really???

[citation needed]

My personal apologies for the ridiculous partisan groupthink on slashdot, which moderated your post down to -1. It's becoming so prevalent, it's almost unbearable to read comments any more.

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Dear God the last thing I want is a bureaucrat deciding which neighborhood gets the next broadband upgrade.

You made my point beautifully. My point is that the same principle would/should apply to Comcast, rather than making the original practice illegal as a preventative measure.

Um, seriously?

Mitt Romney was the 70th Governor of Massachussetts until January 4th, 2007.

Mike Huckabee was 44th Governor of Arkansas until January 8th, 2007.

Neither of these men hold a legislative or executive position.