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Re:The EU's Link Tax Will Kill Open Access and Creative Comm... by mnw21cam on Monday October 29, 2018 @10:32AM (#18327811)
That's not how VAT works. All three companies A, B, and C pay $10 each, because they have all added $100 value to the goods they have sold. Is that not how it works everywhere?
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Re:The EU's Link Tax Will Kill Open Access and Creative Comm... by why_only_15 on Monday October 29, 2018 @12:46PM (#18328917)
He isn't proposing VAT - mcny was explicitly proposing a straight up tax on revenue.
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Re:The EU's Link Tax Will Kill Open Access and Creative Comm... by neffy on Monday October 29, 2018 @12:17PM (#18328681)
No, the US is as OP said.

Apropos... popular macro-economic theory is based more or less on the idea that the economic financial system is not sensitive to conditions like these. As you just showed, it's actually quite trivial to demonstrate that it is.

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