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“Google tax” plan moves ahead in Mountain View after city panel actions
San Jose Mercury News ^
| 5/23/18
| By GEORGE AVALOS
Posted on 05/24/2018 10:11:35 AM PDT by NohSpinZone
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Well, I figured that the Seattle contagion would eventually wend itself into other cities. I just didn't think it'd be this soon.
Commies have never met a tax they didn't like. Creating new taxes is their idea of innovation.
To: NohSpinZone
The liberals at Google deserve this.
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posted on
05/24/2018 10:14:09 AM PDT
by
MeganC
(There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
To: NohSpinZone
When you think of the six-figure incomes that tech companies pay their employees, a tax of $200 per employee doesnt seem to be that much more to pay,
There you go - when you're paying employees to do real work, why not throw some more money the government's way so liberals can spend it on whatever strikes their fancy?
To: NohSpinZone
GOOD...!!
Serves em right.
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posted on
05/24/2018 10:27:42 AM PDT
by
gaijin
To: MeganC
“The liberals at Google deserve this.”
Reminds me of the old adage, “I was a liberal until I got mugged!”
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posted on
05/24/2018 10:29:34 AM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(Reality! Deep State owns/controls the DNC, DOJ/FBI/CIA, our media and its fake news/lying mediots!)
To: NohSpinZone
Dont be evil.
‘Cept to evil people.
Then be really evil.
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posted on
05/24/2018 10:31:42 AM PDT
by
gaijin
To: NohSpinZone
Liberals are insane (defined as doing the same thing while expecting a different result).
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posted on
05/24/2018 10:33:41 AM PDT
by
clee1
(We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
To: NohSpinZone
And yet they wonder why companies move elsewhere or go overseas or hire non American help...NOT always the salaries, sometimes the screwing the companies get from the Cities/Counties/States FOR hiring Americans.
Just like that little ‘tax break’ PDT ‘gave’ us, ALL cities/towns/municipalities etc raised taxes on SOMETHING just to make sure WE don’t get the few pennies doled out to us.
Time for another ‘Boston Tea Party’ with all the trimmings
On the other hand, since “WE” expect everything the town etal has to offer and complain if the garbage pickup is late or too noisy, or the 1/2” of snow isn’t off Main Street, ‘they’ have to invent ways to get into our pockets.
Really a disgusting loop de loop de loop
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posted on
05/24/2018 10:33:57 AM PDT
by
xrmusn
((6/98)""Liberals suffer from PTDS -PRESIDENT TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME")
To: NohSpinZone
When you think of the six-figure incomes that tech companies pay their employees earn, and the five-figure tax burden those employees already pay to the government, an additional tax of $200 per employee doesnt seem to be that much more for employees to pay have taken out of their paycheck,
To: NohSpinZone
First Seattle,then Mountain View.I'll bet that Utah,Wyoming and Arizona will start looking pretty good to larger employers.
A year or two ago the State of Connecticut started talking about enacting a special tax on Yale's huge endowment.Soon after I heard a story that Florida officials were trying to lure Yale to move down there!
Actions have consequences!
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posted on
05/24/2018 10:39:44 AM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
To: Gay State Conservative
First Seattle,then Mountain View.I'll bet that Utah,Wyoming and Arizona will start looking pretty good to larger employers. I don't know if letting people work remotely would help. I'm fortunate in that I work for a large company but I get to work remotely as a contractor. Some companies just won't allow it.
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posted on
05/24/2018 10:48:47 AM PDT
by
scripter
To: NohSpinZone
Sutton’s Law is still in force.
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posted on
05/24/2018 10:50:51 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
To: scripter
The remote thing may be becoming problematic due to something NYC is looking at: namely telling employers they can’t communicate or demand their employees communicate with them after business hours.
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posted on
05/24/2018 10:52:48 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
To: scripter
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posted on
05/24/2018 10:54:26 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
To: NohSpinZone
Someone’s having their Willie Sutton moment.
To: MeganC
How about stationing a police officer outside the building and issue a ticket to everyone who comes out.
To: NohSpinZone
They should charge google $10,000/year/employee head, regardless of where on Earth that employee is located...
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posted on
05/24/2018 11:29:43 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Urban "food deserts," are caused by "climate change" in urban customers' attitudes (H/T niteowl77))
To: NohSpinZone
Punishing companies based on the number of people they employ in an area discourages them from employing a large number of people in that area.
To: Architect of Avalon
You are right but I’m thinking these cities believe that these companies are “pot committed” to use a poker term. Apple just built its Spaceship campus. Google is building its second HQ in San Jose. Looks like both companies are going to stick around for a while.
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posted on
05/24/2018 11:36:02 AM PDT
by
NohSpinZone
(First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
To: NohSpinZone
“When you think of the six-figure incomes that tech companies pay”
Ignorance on display. The company’s current profit will determine how hard hitting a new tax will be.
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posted on
05/24/2018 11:39:54 AM PDT
by
fruser1
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