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The one aspect I'm not seeing anyone mention here is the very real implications this has for the company in question. I don't have the numbers, but a tax like this could (and probably would) cause Zuckerberg to no longer have control of Facebook since he had to sell shares. Or Bezos to lose control of Amazon, etc.

I, for one, think this is a big negative.




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