Comment by wslh
2 years ago
Will you cap military spending? Beyond the side people take there is some human natural tendency to power that cannot be artificially capped or if it you try to artificially cap it, there is a flow with a lot of pressure that go somewhere else.
I am not proposing to cap anything. Please re-read the entire comment you're replying to, not just the first line.
My question was just following your "brainstorming". Sorry, I didn't explain myself correctly:
My point is that when you start arguing about capping and/or taxes you should take into account the concept of power, governments, and realpolitik into account. You can put a set of rules for handling corporate power (e.g. taxes) but those corporations could be really smart and move to another jurisdiction such as Ireland (e.g. Google) as a kind of safe heaven. In those cases the whole thinking turns more complex. Gaming the system is part of the game and every rule you put has a loophole except if a government is really strict and/or a dictatorship, and power (e.g. reality) plays there beyond the rules.
move to another jurisdiction such as Ireland
The size tax should be applied to imports, just like VAT is.