“Let’s face it: raising taxes to fund Europe’s ever-burgeoning welfare state is not an easy process, politically speaking. It’s much easier to plunder and loot big, wealthy foreign companies. The process reminds me of how local communities here in the United States impose exorbitant taxes on hotels and motels under the idea that it’s politically better to tax ‘foreigners’ than one’s own residents. Or U.S. asset-forfeiture laws that enable cops to fund their departments with cash seized from highway travelers.  In the late 1990s, the EU went after Microsoft, which was the economic boogeyman at that time.  Microsoft ultimately was plundered to the tune of $2.3 billion.”

http://fff.org/2015/04/20/googles-turn-plundered/

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