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Comment by jonathanstrange | Hacker News Reader

A badge of honor. Although it's good to be cautious about retaliatory measures, it is perhaps time to think about imposing a digital services tax.

That being said, it's quite weird that these tariffs are imposed only on some EU countries (plus UK). How could that possibly work? EU companies can just export goods via other EU countries.

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Of course, the DST should be instated ASAP regardless of what the US does - not having one is completely absurd in this day and age, one needs domestic industry to survive as a country (or federation) and that doesn't happen with 0% tarriffs, which is what "no DST" is the equivalent of for tech.

Wasn't there some kind of military exercise around Greenland the other day? I assume these are the countries that participated?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Arctic_Endurance

how I believe the tripwire would legally work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46634146

And I think the Trump cabinet noticed, because they pivoted! (The actual analysis is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46630190 btw)

For that matter, if we're still doing WTO, I doubt their pivot to economic extortion falls under the safe-harbour of "justified trade measures"...

Sure if they want to chase away their tax revenue.

They're too big of a market to have companies pull out over this. China has even worse conditions for foreign companies and everyone bends over backwards for a chance to sell there. Counter to popular sentiment in US tech circles, as of this year the EU is the world's second biggest economy (beating China to third place).

What tax revenue ? Aren't they all declaring their profits in Ireland (a tax haven) ?

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