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Oletros
9y ago
What are you talking about? When the heck did Apple and Google left USA? > In fact, are there any multinationals left in high tax countries? I think you're confusing where the headquarters are located with presence in a market
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Oletros
9y ago
> But what do you mean by "leaving a market" Pulling off any presence in that market, offices, stores, etc. > If Google do leave EU, all it will do is legal maneuvering. Nothing will change for EU consumers. They can still d
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Oletros
9y ago
> If so it's just a whiney tax grab by the French and Germans who are used to getting their own way in the EU. What? EU countries are not saying that repatriating profits is bad, what they say is that companies use strategies to av
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Oletros
9y ago
And next Apple or Amazon leaving the EU?
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Oletros
9y ago
No, I'm asking how many multinational have left a big market (one of the biggest in the world) just for taxation.
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Oletros
9y ago
> It rarely works well with any multinational. how many multinationals have left any big market just for taxation?
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Oletros
9y ago
> This is pretty dangerous thinking. Dangerous thinking? It was just an answer to a claim about the wealth they create as if they are exempt to be taxed because they create wealth. > Over time, these companies will make infinitely mor
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Oletros
9y ago
And physical presence in almost every EU country
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Oletros
9y ago
> One way to see it is that people from the EU are simply buying services from a US company I would like how they do businesses, including Amazon and Apple if they leave the EU because the way you see it is totally wrong. Starting with
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Oletros
9y ago
I wonder how much revenue and profit would have lost Google and Facebook if they didn't exist in the EU
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Oletros
9y ago
They are not forcing no voters to marry same sex persons
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Oletros
9y ago
> I find it fascinating that such emotive language is used. I thought that the sarcastic tone was clear :)
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Oletros
9y ago
Ah, you're just joking, got it
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Oletros
9y ago
Are you saying that Apple or Google don't operate in Spain or France? What the heck has to do your claim of Spain or France being corrupt with Apple or Google declaring losses with record revenues?
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Oletros
9y ago
When Google or Apple declares losses in Spain having record revenues so they have fiscal benefits when that country has a very big crisis then we have a big problem. But hey, those countries ajust want to get their grubby hand in those poor
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Oletros
9y ago
> what do you think would happen? Facebook would disappear from the EU
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Oletros
9y ago
Please, can you give any information of any of those companies working for EU customers without having any presence in the EU?
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Oletros
9y ago
You'll be glad to know that it is not true
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Oletros
9y ago
> It's pretty obvious that the EU is only doing this because Google is a US company. If it is obvious, it will be easy to explain the reasons for it > I am quite sure that google considered simply pulling entirely out of Europe.
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Oletros
9y ago
> The political proponents of it have already changed it to "climate change Taking into account that since the start it has been called climate change, the rest of your post can be dismissed as the same wrong claims
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Oletros
9y ago
He didn't provide any fact, he made hyperbolic claims and and illogical suggestion. Please, provide evidence that all ANIMAL products are carcinogenic and causes heart diseases. The logical conclusion is not stop eating any animal prod
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Oletros
9y ago
Comments like yours is a good way to discredit veganism
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Oletros
9y ago
Perhaps a lot of the "whining" comes from the people using the Family Plan. Going from $149/year for 2-10 computers to $240-$1200/year is not a little increase
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Oletros
9y ago
AFAIK, app store never lost the trademark
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Oletros
9y ago
> As to the models, when the models failed to predict reality, they should have been thrown out. What models have failed to predict reality?, all the models have failed? > Of course I don't have any proof, because the internal de
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Oletros
9y ago
Good, but it would be better if they ask what kind of data is sold to any party
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Oletros
9y ago
Ahorita is not used outside of Mexico, in other Spanish spoken countries, you use ahora.
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Oletros
9y ago
> No, I think that the data has been adjusted, sometimes purposefully and sometimes unknowingly, in a direction which results in more warming due to the peer pressure involved. Any example of those pressures? > Then, we have scientist
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Oletros
9y ago
> You're basically just saying that everybody else agrees, so you need to get in line. No, what I'm saying is that everybody excep a little group abides to scientific facts. Like in the case of Creationism, the little group dis
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Oletros
9y ago
> The data points become invalid. https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/01/thorough-not-thoroug... Every data from every experiment in every field has to be adjusted, raw data is meaningless
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