Good luck raising taxes against concerted lobbying efforts and threats to leave the area.<p>And good luck calculating what a &quot;share&quot; is.<p>In the UK, Google has come under fire for negotiating a risibly low tax payment.<p>That has as much to do with the current administration&#x27;s dislike of corporate taxation as it does with Google. Even so - Google, like all corporations, benefits from the UK&#x27;s education system, healthcare, transport investment, police force, legal system, and security services. It&#x27;s hardly unreasonable to expect a larger contribution to all of the above than the company currently makes.<p>I expect the SV situation is similar, even allowing for local differences.<p>&gt;If a lot of rich people live somewhere, that should be a windfall.<p>Not if rich people also own the government and manipulate the taxation system for their own benefit. This is <i>exactly</i> what is happening in the UK, and it&#x27;s why public infrastructure is creaking while rich people all over central London are pushing up property prices by buying for investment and leaving huge swathes of real estate empty.