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cm0002@lemmings.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 3 days ago

The circle of life

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cm0002@lemmings.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 3 days ago
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    You can’t increase taxes on companies. They’ll leave the country.

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      Oh no! What if they took all their fucking datacenters and their pollution and their buying all RAM and their pulling all electricity out of the grid with them?

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        What on god’s green Earth makes you think they would?

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          Well if not, then all their stuff is still there and could be seized. Say… as a moving-out-of-country-tax

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            That would ruin the reputation of your country

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      If they don’t contribute their share to taxes, why would I as a citizen want them?

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        Do have what they already give.

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          What, the 0 dollars the billionaire pay?

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            I thought you meant the companies.

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              Same statement. They don’t pay corporate tax either.

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      Oh shit, you weren’t sarcastic?

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        Lol no

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      Great sarcasm!

      That is sarcasm, right?

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        Nope

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      Too late, already happened. It’s the reason why Ireland is the home for such notable Irish tech companies as Google, MSFT, Amazon, Meta, and others.

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        Those are American companies

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      Damn, I wish that was true

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        Why?

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