I completely agree that it's naive to expect big corporations to selflessly pay more taxes. It's never going to work. But it's not really up to individual coun

I completely agree that it's naive to expect big corporations to selflessly pay more taxes. It's never going to work. But it's not really up to individual countries' tax code either. The problem is that you have a global race to the bottom with these companies, they'll move to the countries with the lowest tax rates. See the current competition for which city will end up hosting Amazon's new complex. At the very least the solution has to come from the European Union. We need to figure out a better to unify our tax codes and retaliate against multinationals that don't pay their fair share of taxes. We need to stop this competition between member states that leaves all of us poorer in the end. I'm sure the EU is capable of coercing Apple and friends into paying more taxes, as long as it's united. This is clearly not the case at the moment and that's the problem SZ should work on, not begging foreign multinationals to please pay more taxes.