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Re:France has approved a digital services tax despite threat... by bmelton on Thursday July 11, 2019 @03:25PM (#20414748)
To this extent, countries compete on taxation and value-add for services. Perhaps country A charges more in taxes, but offers more education to its people, and a more educated workforce to hire from, while country B offers fewer of those amenities in exchange for lower taxes.

Inter-country competition helps to keep them honest, and corporations get to choose the luxury of where they operate from and do business out of.

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Re:France has approved a digital services tax despite threat... by umeshunni on Thursday July 11, 2019 @04:04PM (#20415240)
What's missing is the luxury for individuals to also choose their countries based on the same parameters.
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Re:France has approved a digital services tax despite threat... by vorpalhex on Thursday July 11, 2019 @03:38PM (#20414930)
That's a very thoughtful reply to my off the cuff response. Corporations and people do get to shop both taxes and benefits, but most individuals seem to treat them like a genetic condition.

There's value in competition, because it's about the closest we've been able to get to evolution. The issue comes about when competition is lopsided - I can understand the complaint here from the French, but I don't care at all for their solution.

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