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> How about a 100% tariff on Office 365, Windows, AWS, Azure, etc? + Apple products, + google (& their ads), + Facebook (& their ads), + Netflix, + all Hollywo
by blitzar 2y ago
> How about a 100% tariff on Office 365, Windows, AWS, Azure, etc?
+ Apple products, + google (& their ads), + Facebook (& their ads), + Netflix, + all Hollywood film and television output.
Funnily enough all the money everyone outside the US spends on these things is not included in the "trade deficit" that is "the problem".
- wqaatwt 2y ago> Apple products Which would effectively have to be implemented as a tariff on products manufactured in China and Taiwan and imported and sold by an Irish company. It’s impossible to do that without some massive legal changes which are politically infeasible and would also hurt European economy.
- blitzar 2y agoTax the repatriation of the profits to the US and/or the "royalty payments" paid to wipe out any profits that would arrise in the Irish company. If the US sees the world as zero sum, as they are entitled to, it is time we stopped accomadating a globalised tax system.
- disgruntledphd2 2y ago> Tax the repatriation of the profits to the US and/or the "royalty payments" paid to wipe out any profits that would arrise in the Irish company. This doesn't happen anymore (the royalty payments), now the revenue is booked in Ireland, with consequent impacts on their tax collection.