I agree with your take on it. If they got their billions of taxes they'd have bankrupted this guy and put Continental Tire and a bunch of other companies out o

I agree with your take on it. If they got their billions of taxes they'd have bankrupted this guy and put Continental Tire and a bunch of other companies out of business. There would be a ton of lost jobs and a lot of value in society destroyed. All because they couldn't back out of a deal because of the law in the first place. Definitely a weird international thing going on here too with the IRS potentially bankrupting a German company and the Germans being stuck with the fallout.