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[โ€“] albert180@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Then walk the talk. Otherwise we become a joke

And please tariff the shit out of US Services, since Trump conviently forgets about these when he cries about the trade deficit.

It hurts the Techbros most, and helps growing our own digital industry.

[โ€“] gajustempus@feddit.org 13 points 22 hours ago

all we have to do is collect the taxes from Meta, Alfabet and X that are overdue - the amount of cash we could get out of them would be enough to finance a LOT of great things here in Europe

[โ€“] krebssteven@infosec.pub 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Keep in mind that might not be that easy, depending on if the services are provided by an EU subsidary or directly overseas.

[โ€“] albert180@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Couldn't you discriminate by how much of the value/work was created in Europe Vs US?

Most of the subsidiaries aren't doing much of the work

[โ€“] bstix@feddit.dk 1 points 23 hours ago

I'm not sure how to put tariffs on invisible trading, except for taxing profits directly and forcing the profits to be allocated to the right country.

That's sort of what transfer pricing methods are supposed to do anyway, but they are still very flexible and usually work the other way.

[โ€“] mitchty@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 23 hours ago

Honestly, be proactive about it.