If American companies don't want to pay taxes in Europe they can easily avoid doing so by staying home. If they prefer to earn profits in Europe they can comply with the law. As it is they do everything they can to avoid paying taxes, full stop, not just in Europe.
A rational entity would want a functioning society, with working infrastructure and social systems, not a crumbling country on the verge of revolution. Guess what pays for that? Taxes.
Stop trying to rebrand selfishness as rationalism.
Do you voluntarily pay more than the minimum taxes required or are you selfish? And don't try to deflect the question by making spurious claims that wealthy individuals or corporations should be held to a higher standard. Give us a clear yes or no answer.
Look, I'm no economist, I don't know the exact numbers.
I can tell you however, that Bezos and his oligarch friends booking out a Venice that is sinking from climate change, while people suffer without health insurance and we still don't have high speed rail as built out as it needs to be is definitely not my understanding of fair.
And again, I say this as somebody that I also think should be taxed more. To live this well while so many people and projects need the resources more is unconscionable.
Leave the implementation details to the experts and elected officials. It's clear which direction we need to move in though.
So in other words you have no clue and are just making stuff up. If you want to donate more money to the government then go ahead, no one is stopping you.
That's not at all what I said and you know it. Shame on you for using such a bad-faith interpretation in your defense of the indefensible. The details of how we try to bend our capitalist system do not interest me because it is an inherently broken system. It is because of selfishness like yours that we will all die in the climate catastrophe.
Fair would be Bezos and his ilk getting the Jack Ma treatment, oligarch fortunes reclaimed by the people and used for solving the climate crisis. But we won't get fair. Meanwhile greedy little moneygrabbers argue over some little tax. Ridiculous.
Shame on you for making a bad faith comment you while refusing to be specific. It's horrifying that your would support anything done by communists. All communists should be killed.
