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Re:Commission says Ireland granted undue tax benefits of up ... by allendoerfer on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @08:29AM (#12389356)
VW cheated, but the bigger moral problem and the underlying topic is not the cheating but the pollution that was hidden by it. And suggesting that VW is polluting more than US brands is just nuts.

Edit: Just wanted to make clear, that of course the cheating should have totally been caught in Europe earlier. The thought that the US is not biased with its domestic brands just made me chuckle.

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Re:Commission says Ireland granted undue tax benefits of up ... by barking on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @08:40AM (#12389434)
>The thought that the US is not biased with its domestic brands just made me chuckle.

Who suggested that, or for that matter who suggested that "VW is polluting more than US brands"?

I know I didn't.

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Re:Commission says Ireland granted undue tax benefits of up ... by allendoerfer on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @01:01PM (#12391826)
> Who suggested that, or for that matter who suggested that "VW is polluting more than US brands"?

So we can all agree, that governments favouring their big domestic companies is not just an EU thing. You criticized the EU for going after Apple and not VW, I made clear that the US is going after VW and not GM.

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