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2026-07-27 10:55 UTC
Big Tech uses a variety of tax-cheating gambits to evade taxation around the world, making it impossible for (tax-paying) domestic companies to compete:
https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2025/06/canada-rescinds-digital-services-tax-to-advance-broader-trade-negotiations-with-the-united-states.html
Trump also got UK PM Keir Starmer to drop his plan to tax tech:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/01/starmer-offered-big-us-tech-firms-tax-cuts-in-return-for-lower-trump-tariffs
And he got the EU to roll back its plan to regulate AI:
https://fortune.com/2025/11/07/eu-ai-act-weaken-regulation-delay-big-tech-trump-government/
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-07-27 10:55
None of the governments that caved to Trump got anything in return. As I've written: > Give Trump everything he asks for and he'll demand more. Deny Trump anything and he'll demand more. Sign a contract with Trump and he'll break it. Send Trump an invoice and he'll stiff you. For Trump, "the art of the deal" can be summed up in one word: *renege*. https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/22/table-flipper/#graveyard-of-indispensable-nations 8/