Comment by dwaltrip
7 years ago
Private companies are also dependent on a highly developed society to make everything they do possible.
There are many reasons that Google and Amazon didn't exist a thousand years ago, and it isn't solely due to the lack of computing technology.
And so it is entirely sensible that everyone should contribute towards keeping the highly developed society functioning as best as it can.
That has no relevance to whether google got money under the threat of violence (government taxation) or whether it’s money that was voluntarily given to them for goods/services.
Google wasting money is no different than my neighbor wasting money. The government wasting money is upsetting because it was taken from me supposedly to help the country.
Your perspective might be different if you pay very little in taxes.