"waaah if you tax us we'll leave!" uh ok??? bye!!! don't let the door hit you on the ass, blah blah blah you get it

remember kids, the billionaires need us, we don't need them!

@redsad Apple is already an Irish company that has slave workers in China, for the purpose of evading taxes and market wages while selling a high markup phone in the market, they already left so they can leech off a market without trickling down anything, I don't know what to tell you
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@i_give_u_worms No, not for the purpose of evading taxes, but because taxes incentivized them to do that.

This is an important distinction as we talk about how to design tax policy.

@volkris @i_give_u_worms no, it's really not. it is a distinction without a difference.

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The reason it makes a difference is because its important to realize that by choosing this tax policy y'all are pushing them hard to deliver this result that you don't want.

So if you don't want that result, maybe don't choose the policy that causes that result.

This is the choice that you are making. Realize that you have this power. And maybe don't use this power to cause the result that you don't like.

Up to you.

@i_give_u_worms

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This is about real world implications of tax policy, not about rhetoric.

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