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>EU needs to start taxing heavily any services provided here by the USA.

Their services are provided by companies/branches in the EU not the US.

When you buy a EC2/S3 bucket from AWS you get invoiced by Amazon Luxembourg, not Amazon Washington. When you buy a Microsoft, Google, PayPal, Meta or Apple service, you'll be buying from a company registered in Ireland or Netherlands. And most of them also have datacenters in the EU for their EU customers.

So how do you tax them more than other companies in the EU? Make The Great EUSSR Firewall?






In fact I think EU should heavily tighten the screws on US big tech on grounds that their presence is a security risk.

They are beholden to the US government in many ways, and relying on the services beholden to a hostile foreign nation should be considered a risk.


So, it'll probably be tarriffing the large US financial institutions first, and excluding them from public procurement.

Honestly not sure what they'll do about tech, but it's not gonna be pretty.

Trade wars are bad for everyone, but we are where we are I guess.


What makes these EU companies part of the American companies then?

Tariff licensing costs.



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