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One less person on the payroll to generate negative news and internal strife is surely a positive development.

Are you litigating the boeing v airbus thing? didn't the WTO rule that airbus is receiving billions in illegal subsidies?

And are you suggesting that france doesn't subside specific industries?

If you're complaints are exclusive to the aviation and defence industries then a US complaint regarding the EU and france could include that and every other industry.

If my math is correct then most of the companies are American, and by far most of the potential revenue.

Considering the rhetoric leading to this tax and the french government's many raids and failed investigations into US companies and their taxes it's difficult even with careful wording for the french government to deny the actual target of this tax in a WTO type setting.

Even with recent tariffs, US tariffs are still generally low, it's hardly a poster child for "protectionism", the EU has other barriers in addition to tariffs and much of it is due to french protectionism.

If you think that these "loopholes" should be closed then close them for all companies and countries, don't enact discriminatory laws and then act indignant about it.

Shouldn't be a long inquiry, this tax is textbook discriminatory trade barrier.

If you look at EU policy as france and germany protecting their perceived interests by targeting US tech companies it starts making sense, I think a rule of thumb there is: "if it hurts google it should be law".

It's curious how when these people complain about corporations not paying taxes they reliably fail to mention that it's because of R&D tax credits.

Not sure how wise it is for politicians to employ a populist strategy against companies that outstrip them in favorability among the average citizen.

The laws are fine, what we need is to not tailor laws according to selfish political whims or to the whims of publishers and all other inferior competition.

Luckily for Google in the US the grievances of a company's enemies/competitors don't count for much.

I'll credit the WSJ for counting themselves among those enemies, but what I find vexing with all these reports is the constant and casual mentions of "breaking up" these companies as though it's a viable and realistic outcome which it isn't and any self respecting publication should present things in the proper context.

Eliminating tax deductions and the perverse incentives they entail would be a bigger boon than further taxing the successful and fortunate.

The problem isn't a lack in revenue the problem is that we are spending it on the wrong stuff.