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This is just how business works at that level.

Don't like it? Me either, but Google is still playing by the rules.

They are certainly playing by government rules. People who arent happy with this should complain about and to governments. and not to corporations.

The amount of lobbying $ by Google alone leads me to really question whether anyone in Washington even rarely considers people complaining.

The loophole was closed, so I guess the lobbying either wasn't about that or wasn't effective.

And EU tax laws aren't determined in Washington.

Exactly.

So then we change the rules.