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bdangubicyesterday at 7:21 PM1 replyview on HN

would in this case help to treat Apple and Google as foreign company? No government contracts (or super strict rules to get them), tariffs…?


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AnthonyMouseyesterday at 7:32 PM

> No government contracts (or super strict rules to get them)

Now you've created a disadvantage for corporations to bid on government contracts, reducing competition and causing the government to pay more for stuff. Meanwhile the companies that actually bid are then the ones that specialize in lobbying the government and register locally and other corporations still register elsewhere.

> tariffs

If you were going to use that you could just as easily use VAT to begin with.

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