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I don't know why you're telling me this, I know it - and it's not relevant at all without knowing the numbers.
I guess it's just a crazy coincidence that most huge multinational corporations base their European operations in Ireland then? They just like drinking Guinness I suppose?
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I don't know why you're telling me this, I know it - and it's not relevant at all without knowing the numbers.
Well you said it doesn't matter because we don't know the numbers, yet the numbers we do know about don't match any scenario that doesn't involve large scale tax """optimisation"""
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> Because poor people can't spend money (since they don't have it), hence they pay much less (or even no tax) Poor people can buy a car. Middle class families can buy 2 cars. Neither can buy 100 exotic cars. Is the purchase of each additional car going to increase the tax paid? Are exotic cars taxed more? You keep stating to use a power law formula but you're critically omitting what the inputs are to determine your…
> Is the purchase of each additional car going to increase the tax paid? Yes, tax liability = total spending during the year plugged into the power law tax formula. >Are exotic cars taxed more? Depends how much the taxpayer spends in a year. There is no tax rate for each specific item. The tax rate is for a total level of spending, which eliminates all loopholes. > You keep stating to use a power law formula but you'…
My capital gains tax is immediately collected as my bank sees any capital gains. I physically can't dodge it.
Similarily I could have tax on every purchase I pay for with any kind of bank transfer immediately collected.
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Is that related to the privatization wave after 1989? If so, the culprit here is the corrupt political caste that sold companies below their true value for kickbacks. Corruption has been an endemic problem in the east.
It isn't. That happened some time around 2000. Unless your theory is that ~11 years isn't enough to change generations in which case there's more than that, right? Then give other examples.
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> Is the purchase of each additional car going to increase the tax paid? Yes, tax liability = total spending during the year plugged into the power law tax formula. >Are exotic cars taxed more? Depends how much the taxpayer spends in a year. There is no tax rate for each specific item. The tax rate is for a total level of spending, which eliminates all loopholes. > You keep stating to use a power law formula but you'…
I don't like this idea of collecting this tax yearly. I'd skip the power formula and have this tax to be just fixed percentage on every purchase to be able to collect it immediately and automatically by using the banking system itself. My capital gains tax is immediately collected as my bank sees any capital gains. I physically can't dodge it. Similarily I could have tax on every purchase I pay for with any kind of b…
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> Lend-Lease. Who do you think they leased from and what do you think they leased? Did the US won the war alone ? who used the weapons ?
But without US industry/industrialists the war would have very much been lost.
Soviet Russia simply would not have survived. That anyone was left to use weapons was because of America.
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How does that work if it's a cloud system and you're denied access because the IT admin from another continent locked you out? Are you going to keep the executive around as a hostage in hopes of getting them to release the files?
Why should the IT guy lock you out if you want to access your data?
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>Also when the government is really motivated, he can arrested the founders or executives directly (Pavel Durov). Which is what they should do to Netflix execs if they are doing business illegally. You're in favor of holding executives hostage to demand access to data? If they actually did something illegal, they can be arrested/tried for that, but arresting executives as a means to coerce companies into doing stuff…
> You're in favor of holding executives hostage to demand access to data? If they actually did something illegal, they can be arrested/tried for that, but arresting executives as a means to coerce companies into doing stuff is a total perversion of the rule of law. Turns out that witholding data as a company executive is outright illegal, so yeah, we're in favor of it and they can get arrested and charged for for it.
Except in this case it's not the executive that has the data. The data is sitting on some cloud server somewhere, and the executive no longer has access because the CISO got wind of the raid and locked his account. If you're holding the executive, you're not holding the executive because he's refusing to cooperate with a warrant, you're holding the executive as a hostage so HQ would turn over the document.
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>Also when the government is really motivated, he can arrested the founders or executives directly (Pavel Durov). Which is what they should do to Netflix execs if they are doing business illegally. You're in favor of holding executives hostage to demand access to data? If they actually did something illegal, they can be arrested/tried for that, but arresting executives as a means to coerce companies into doing stuff…
> You're in favor of holding executives hostage to demand access to data? This is a very emotional way of saying "you're in favour of enforcing contempt of court rulings against people who try to obstruct the judicial process".
it's not clear whether the executive has the ability to turn over the documents.
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>Also when the government is really motivated, he can arrested the founders or executives directly (Pavel Durov). Which is what they should do to Netflix execs if they are doing business illegally. You're in favor of holding executives hostage to demand access to data? If they actually did something illegal, they can be arrested/tried for that, but arresting executives as a means to coerce companies into doing stuff…
What if it is illegal to withhold the data during an investigation? Isn't the executive then committing a crime?