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Tax the rent seekers not producers.

Govts should be heavily taxing those who buy up assets yet produce nothing. Those who produce should be taxed lightly.

How do you differentiate a corporation that “produces nothing” from one that does?

Given that the Irish government purposefully attracts the rent seekers to their country, this is already a solved problem.

I wouldn't call companies like Apple "rent seekers", and they benefit a lot from the Irish loopholes. So yea, not a solved problem.