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		charlesdm on Sept 10, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: France, Germany, Italy, Spain seek to base taxes o... The US is probably also realistically the only country in the world that would be able to do this and get away with it. (Pretty sure Eritrea isn't collecting much from abroad..)

slashdev on Sept 10, 2017 [–]

Yeah, you're right. It comes back to the USA is special. There's a lot of things it gets away with that other countries could not. There are benefits to being #1.

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