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		sebsito on Dec 5, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Spain planning on going ahead with ‘Google tax’ de... I'm not sure if the US freedoms are just talk because all those successful companies which Spain wants to tax were started in US not in EU. So Spain with it's $12B of export can risk imposing tariffs (it's essentially a tax at mostly US companies) compared to e.g. Germany which exports much more.

DoingIsLearning on Dec 5, 2019 | [–]

This is a non sequitur, personal freedom has very little to do with availability of VC level funding or an increase in startup investment.

I don't follow your point?

mrtksn on Dec 5, 2019 | [–]

It's probably not about freedom since the same freedom in California doesn't seem to be able to create similar outcomes in, let's say, Alabama.

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