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Or move all business operations offshore, and basically claiming to be a non-US corp, and not bound by the USA's jurisdiction to prosecute.
by gremlinsinc 6y ago
Or move all business operations offshore, and basically claiming to be a non-US corp, and not bound by the USA's jurisdiction to prosecute.
- pm90 6y agoI’m not sure if this is in Jest, but the federal government has a lot of coercive power with most Nations, so this wouldn’t really help.
- Simulacra 6y agoOh wow, let's see how that would work with tariffs and taxes. The U.S. government can do a lot to screw with business operations, domestic or abroad. A bureaucrat sitting in an office at the DOE or Trade can hold up a shipment of controller boards for any number of reasons almost indefinitely; piracy, hacking, heck even conflict minerals.
- voisin 6y agoMaybe it is worth asking ourselves if we are okay with the government having so much power that it can “do a lot to screw with business operations, domestic or abroad.” I agree that this is the case and seriously wish it wasn’t so.
- gremlinsinc 6y agoAnd new politicians will replace old ones, and bygones will be forgotten - winds will change. I mean, twitter could just decide to completely ban Trump now in retaliation. Nothing he could do about that.