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Carney caves on taxing digital giants and Trump's White House claims victory (i.ytimg.com)
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[–] 35 points 1 year ago (1 child)

If you are upset by this fact, you can support your local Canadian artists by viewing their work here, instead of on Netflix, Google, Meta:

https://www.nfb.ca/

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    [+] 17 points 1 year ago* (26 children)
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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    a surface-level “win” that doesn’t actually cost Canada anything.

    Except for billions of dollars of tax revenue.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Which would be, in practice, very difficult to enforce. These companies excel in lowering overhead and avoiding taxes. The very fact that brands ike facebook and google are available in nearly every country should tell you the level of coercive power and wealth they actually have.

    I'm not happy about it either, but it is entirely possible that this was a tactic or diversion.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    oh yes, the bending over and take it power move... awesome for any time trump throws a tantrum

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You seem to accuse a lot of people of bending over in your comment history and seem pretty keen on violence.

    You’re not here for discussion. You’re here to bait. Get bent.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I keep calling for a general strike, how is that violence?

    Also. no I'm not here for discussion because Amerigans let that stage lapse, the entire world is in terrible peril thanks to your collective selfishness and toxic individualism

    if you think thoughts and prayers can get you out of this hole, keep at it and continue to deny your imminent fall into fascism

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    Carney sure seems like he's in a hurry to use any excuse to cut a tax. Letting Trump dictate Canada's internal policy is one hell of a win to give away.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    Y'all are remembering that it's us Canadians that will be paying this tax, right? It's not going to affect any company's bottom line in the slightest.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    What? The digital service tax was for the American corporations to pay.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    That foreign corporations would pay out of their Canadian sales.

    Which would certainly cause them to increase the fees they charge their Canadian customers so they don't have to reduce their profits.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm well aware that's what they might do to offset their costs, but OP saying that the corporations us Canadians will have to pay the tax is plain wrong. They're probably conflating it with tariffs.

    And sorry ‒ off topic question. I haven't lived in Canada in years, but do we really say "y'all" now? That's kinda weird.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    And they're absolutely never going to raise prices for Canadians to compensate right?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What is the price to use Facebook?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I don't agree, but even if I grant it do you feel great about a hostile foreign leader dictating your country's laws? The DST was finished legislation, legally passed by Canadian's elected representatives. And now it's gone. Because Trump says so.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Of all the things Carney could concede, this one is the least of my worries.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Canada's sovereignty means that little to you? Your elected representative just got overruled by a foreign leader.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I was mad at first but on reflection I think you may be right, and hope this is subtle jiu-jitsu, so to speak. We'll see.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    We already know Trump's bluster isn't about the DST or illegal border crossing or fentynal or any of the other things he's been whining about.

    It's about him throwing his (considerable) weight around and making himself feel more important.

    And about finding new ways to scam his followers by showing off how super important he is.

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    • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Calm down. This was the same tactic sheinbaum uses every day. Manufactured chaos over a nothing tax that wasn’t even enforced for years.it was a throw away deal to distract Donald cuz he’s so dumb and easily distracted. ‘I won!’ Meanwhile the export market and Canada stocks took a sweet uptick. Donald is none the wiser as to why. He’s just running off to admire himself in the mirror again.

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    [+] -8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Can people stop spamming the "elbow up" crap. I agree with the sentiment but if that's all you have to say just upvote one of the preexisting comment with it.

    There's no value having walls of what is essentially the same thing. This a bad Reddit habit people seem to be bringing over.

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