Ran out of politics submission, but this is important

Them being taxed is not going to change the news

That's not the point, the point is...The Australian gov wants to tax indexing, which every search engine uses. Because greed and incompetence of cause

They provide a service that should be taxed. Taxes help run government and provide services.

Want to understand more? You can do it right now. Make your own search engine, earn no money and offer it up for taxation

They do not, they already pay taxes on all their services. They don't even charge for indexing, it's completely free, you want to charge a free service?

The Internet is not free. That's why there are so many billionaires.

Yes and we pay taxes for that. Let me give you a better example, say you went to the library and was looking for a certain book, but they jumbled up, there were no categories or sections, no index. Then went over to the next library and found it better, everything was orderly and organized into sections. They want to tax the arrangement, the process of arranging books into sections. Which is the most vain and moronic thing ever. Then every library will be a mess, because people won't organize it.

You're not seeing my point. They tax computers, modems, routers at all levels, manufacturing, distribution, retail and those products are all taxed. Your ISP taxes you and in turn is taxed by local governments. Yet Google (for example) does billions of $ in advertising business and yet does not pay tax. They already index web pages in fact that is their business, selling internet searches and producing results, which they do for 'free' but utilize all the internet transportation around the world without paying tax to any jurisdiction. Taxing indexing - finally - seems like an appropriate way to capture some of that almost pure profit and use it to pay for other government services like roads and infrastructure. You may not agree, but it makes no sense for a company to make that much profit and not give back LIKE THE REST OF US DO.

you're a moron, good day

You actually think Google and all these tech companies would have continued operations for over 20 years without paying taxes? Let me guess, you read an "article"?
Again...you're a moron

Taxes also help fund war, but I bet you'll say, "It can't happen to me, I'm special"

That makes no sense.