It’s 7 a.m. and 58° now and expected to rise to 68°. Details for the next 10 days are here.
More on the drought, as we carry on mostly unaffected (so far), farmers in the Central Valley struggle to find water.
A Richmond public housing project is run by nepotism, according to a new report by the Center for Investigative Reporting.
According to Quartz, Google’s not paying a ton of taxes, it turns out. [H/T SFist]
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Another lawsuit was filed against the Ellis Act relocation subsidy:
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2014/07/25/small-property-owners-institute-sf-ellis-act.html
Paying taxes is for suckers
Is there any suggestion here that Google is not paying the legally correct amount of tax? I don’t think so.
If the US continues to maintain the highest rates of corporate taxes in the western world, then why should any of us be shocked if US corporations take legal, diligent and prudent steps to mitigate that counter-productive penalty for nothing more than being American and trying to succeed globally?
I believe you just plagiarized Dillinger, Sam/John.
I have no idea what you are talking about. Nor, I suspect, does anyone else here.
But if you can address and critique my points, please try. I’m assuming not at this point.