> Europeans are fighting for similar reasons [...] by companies who have failed to pay their taxes again and again. I get that it's trendy right now for electe

> Europeans are fighting for similar reasons [...] by companies who have failed to pay their taxes again and again. I get that it's trendy right now for elected non-technical bureaucrats to whine against tech giants. But if they are really avoiding taxes why not simply... charge them for that? Hint: They can't because all the taxation schemes used by these companies are legal. EU bureaucrats could simply write a tax code that makes them illegal but they won't! All the whining also distracts peoples from asking themselves why European policies failed to grow a healthy growing tech ecosystem like in the US.