More money that is. The Mountain View City Council is claiming that Google partnership with NASA is an attempt at tax dodging. And that by building on Federal land, that are getting out of local property taxes worth $3 million a year.

Greg Perry, a member of the Mountain View City Council, echoed that sentiment. “If public land is being used for private purposes, the tenants should be paying local property taxes,” he said. “We have $30 million in unfunded retirement liabilities. We need the money.”

Why Google would be on the hook for the cities under-funded pork projects I don’t know.

Since the NASA Ames research center is a self contained federal entity, supplying it’s own services, Google would not have to pay local property tax. But according to the NASA Ame’s director of external relations and development, “Google will not save any money by building on our property. They have to pay full ground rent based on fair market value and all the municipal-like services we provide like police, fire and garbage.”

The company will also have to build infrastructure such as sewers and roads, and pay for improvements to existing utilities, Marlaire said.

According to city officials, people won’t care that Google would provide 4,000 jobs, a $300 million facility, or that it would make the valley into a new research hub, “if there’s gridlock on local highways and rents jump.”

Yeah right.

When asked how they would make Google pay, Larry Stone - county tax accessor and all around ass, responded, “I don’t have a clue yet. But I will.”