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Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by philliphaydon on Sunday October 16, 2016 @08:30AM (#12718307)
I'm sorry but the tax adding trillions is utter rubbish. This figure only accounts if the current people paying tax continue to pay, and all benefits and handouts continue as is.

It neglects the fact that he wants to close loopholes that let people not pay tax and give less reason to dodge tax, you could argue that taking all this into account Hillarys tax could force more people to not pay tax and result in trillions rather than the estimated billions she will add.

Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by bantunes on Sunday October 16, 2016 @08:45AM (#12718360)
How naive can you be to think that a career tax-dodger will make dodging taxes harder? I cannot believe you're honestly having that internal dialogue.
Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by briandear on Sunday October 16, 2016 @09:29AM (#12718503)
Tax dodger? Like the New York Times? Carried loss isn't a tax dodge. Ironic that Google and other massive tech companies have their Dutch Irish Sandwiches yet overwhelmingly support Clinton. Does anyone think they would support someone that will hurt their business? Of course not. One could infer that Clinton would further enable so-called tax dodging. Google isn't going to risk billions supporting a candidate because of some social consciousness. There's something in it for them.
Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by SomeStupidPoint on Sunday October 16, 2016 @10:57AM (#12718855)
> There's something in it for them.

That's untrue.

A Trump presidency following the major Snowden leaks would likely be an international death sentence for US tech companies. Other nations might tolerate presidents they feel they can deal with controlling the NSA apparatus in their nation, but almost certainly will take steps to prevent Donald Trump from having the same tools.

For an internet company, the split between Europe and Asia insisting that your service not be an NSA tool while Trump is being tough on terrorists and immigrants likely means that you can no longer continue operating in all markets.

So for someone like Google or Facebook, the hit on taxes is smaller than the potential risk to their European and Asian markets from those regions deciding that they need a localized technology company which isn't as at the behest of US presidents.

tl;dr: Big businesses will pay for international stability, so the hit on taxes from Clinton versus Trump is off-set by better international relations from Clinton than Trump.

Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by kazagistar on Sunday October 16, 2016 @11:14AM (#12718949)
> Other nations might tolerate presidents they feel they can deal with controlling the NSA apparatus in their nation, but almost certainly will take steps to prevent Donald Trump from having the same tools.

That's an intereating point: the argument was always "even if the current regime does not use data collection for evil, the next one moght."

This is why I secretly hope Trump wins, just so all the pro NSA democrats get their collective heads out of their asses.

Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by morgante on Sunday October 16, 2016 @08:22PM (#12721906)
That's not even taking into account the major brain drain which could come under a Trump presidency. We have a precedent.