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If Google would pay their fare share of taxes instead of sheltering them offshore then the bay area could have awesome public transit for everybody.

For all of you bitching about the "burning man" types. The bay area is full of runaways that look just like those kids and are easily radicalized. San Francisco is a "libro-cryt" city. Its very liberal, but they treat the poor like shit.

Apple and Goolge should stop sheltering their taxes.

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All the money that Google keeps offshore to avoid paying taxes on is money that was taken in over seas, and so would only be taxed by the federal government on repatriation. Even if they brought it all back to the US next year SF wouldn't see a cent of it.

It's only "earned overseas" because Google pays foreign subsidiaries money from its US operating company. Its a dodge and everyone knows it.

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