[uxp8u61q]

No message about how greedy Europe wants to steal money from big tech, yada yada yada. Oh, it's the USA this time? Wait, does this mean that these big tech were really not paying their fair share and the USA was just slow to get caught to it? I guess so.

[pb7]

It's an American company that owes American taxes. What does this have to do with Europe fining American tech companies because it can't compete?

[kbelder]

No, the equivalent would be America loading fines and tax penalties onto a large EU tech company, like...

Um...

[iagooar]

What is a "fair share" in your opinion?

[badwolf]

At this moment, I'd estimate a fair share being approximately $29 billion.

[darklycan51]

Microsoft won't pay or at least not this amount, they are basically an arm of the US government at this point

[personomas]

No it doesn't. What it definitely could mean with democrats in power is the USA becoming just as insane as Europe thinking the big corporations are the "bad guys" and we have to "drill" them.

It's a Western problem, not a Europe problem. It's more so in Europe but this contagion that big corporations are evil and governments are good is growing more and more in the US too.