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What kind of fool of a company would Google be if it DIDN'T exploit every tool the government gives it to minimize it's tax burden?

These tools are not given to Google by governments. These tools require a multinational corporation that hides taxes by using incompatible laws of multiple countries.

MS does the same by playing on differences in tax laws of individual states (IIRC, all sales of all DVDs are done through a one-lawyer office in Nevada, and Redmond offices work at loss - hardly a surprise if they never sell anything.)

$74K is something that a family of two hard-working middle managers ($150K/yr each, 25% tax rate) can be paying, not a company like Google.

Hey, at least they're asking for special rights to develop self-driving cars. It's not like they're not wanting to set up a tax dodge so they don't have to pay taxes in their home state, where their CEO lives.

Many of these big companies are tax dodgers anyway.

For example, Bill Gates probably wouldn't have needed to set up a charity if Microsoft had paid its taxes. There would have been lots of money to be spend on medical research and international aid.

http://microsofttaxdodge.com/tax-evasion/

Just like every other company in the area they pay the same taxes and have as much right to have a say in the infrastructure of the area as anyone else.

Not really... http://microsofttaxdodge.com/

I'm glad they're getting involved, since their employees will be a significant portion of the traffic on the bridge. It takes balls of steel to buy full page ads in the Seattle Times trying to dictate how our local tax dollars should be spent when they are over $1.2 BILLION behind on their own state taxes. Washington state is currently facing a budget shortfall of $2.8 billion... and Microsoft's pet congresscritter is sponsoring legislation to give them amnesty on the $1.2B in back taxes and a $100M/year tax break going forward.

Hey Microsoft: sinc you care so much, how about if you pay for the bridge?

http://microsofttaxdodge.com/