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Re:Google's Paris HQ raided in tax probe by Kurtz79 on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @10:31AM (#11761827)
" multinationals are allowed to take the resources of the various nation states they operate in while contributing nothing themselves".

I agree with the sentiment that they should receive equal treatment than local/smaller companies, but saying that they contribute "nothing" is unfair and ingenuous, they do in terms of creation of local jobs and the direct and indirect taxes they pay for them.

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Re:Google's Paris HQ raided in tax probe by tobltobs on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @03:18PM (#11764665)
Please not the trickle down theory again.
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Re:Google's Paris HQ raided in tax probe by asuffield on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @07:11PM (#11766332)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics means something different. "Creating jobs" is not "trickle-down economics".
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Re:Google's Paris HQ raided in tax probe by tobltobs on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @07:23PM (#11766401)
There is nothing in your wikipedia article which says that "Creating jobs" is an antipattern for "trickle-down" economics.
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Re:Google's Paris HQ raided in tax probe by te_chris on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @10:34AM (#11761848)
That's the whole reason they're being raided though. They're not paying enough "direct" taxes!
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