Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten startup survival

Re:Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten s... by Matl on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @05:28PM (#35620498)

As a non U.S citizen, sounds like a state with a million residents is represented as much as a state with 10 million residents. Not sure that's fair, be it I get you don't want to be underrepresented based on where you live either.

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Re:Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten s... by Dalewyn on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @07:20PM (#35621874)

It is fair because States are sovereign. The United States is a Union of States, after all.

The Union is predicated on the States agreeing to certain terms and conditions that guarantee certain State Rights while compromising on others.

One such compromise is representation within the Union, whereby the Lower House (House of Representatives) has the States represented proportionally by population and the Upper House (Senate) has the States represented equally regardless their population. Territories that aren't a State receive no representation.

Additionally, the Lower and Upper Houses each have different duties and powers afforded to them. The Lower House legislates matters concerning money, among other things, while the Upper House legislates matters concerning government appointments and foreign diplomacy (eg: treaties), among other things. Both Houses must also agree with each other on any bills that are intended to go to the President for signing into law.

The States in the Union are tantamount to independent countries in most other contexts, so States' Rights are a very big deal.

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Re:Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten s... by svachalek on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @07:41PM (#35622069)

This sounds like it was written in 1860. States have not been tantamount to independent countries in a time where anyone currently alive could remember.

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Re:Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten s... by pc86 on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @08:56PM (#35622775)

Almost a hundred years before that, but yeah that's kind of the point.

Prior to 1913 Senators weren't even elected by the popular vote, they were elected by state legislators. Literally elected by the State. One could argue that actually makes more sense.

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Re:Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten s... by prepend on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @08:02PM (#35622319)

Right the senate is kind of like how in the UN each country only has one vote. It’s by design that Luxembourg and China have the same votes.

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Re:Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten s... by Matl on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @03:48PM (#35632493)

The UN comparison doesn't make much sense to me; in the context of the UN these are states with often vastly different languages, cultures, histories etc. not the case for the U.S. or at least nowhere near the same extent.

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Re:Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten s... by Dalewyn on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @10:58PM (#35635846)

Did you reply to the wrong comment, by chance? One of the child comments to mine compare to the UN, while I made no such specific comparisons.

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Re:Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten s... by Matl on Thursday April 20, 2023 @02:47PM (#35644411)

Yes, meant to reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35622319

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Re:Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten s... by pc86 on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @08:57PM (#35622786)

Each of those States is represented by two Senators. It's completely equal when you understand that as originally written the Senators represent the States, not the people within the States.

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