I’m not an Economist, but doesn’t such a tax lower a firm’s ability to pay its employees (by hiring more or increasing wages) or decrease the firm’s ability to

I’m not an Economist, but doesn’t such a tax lower a firm’s ability to pay its employees (by hiring more or increasing wages) or decrease the firm’s ability to pay dividends to shareholders or force the firm to raise prices. Generally, it seems like a way to collect more revenue from the population while hiding it as an indirect tax. And it seems a bit like a regressive tax that hits everyone. The fact that they want it to be global makes me feel that they don’t want to compete with other countries that may have “better” economic policies -— whatever that would mean.