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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Can we just ban them?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Best Canada Day gift we could get, I hope he doesn’t go back on it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

The part where "in 7 days we will tell Canada what they have to pay" is going to be interesting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Bye Felicia

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

Thank God, he's finally shuttin' up

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

See if Drug Fraud can blink the lights a bit.

Recall the ambassador, cut the power, wait for the phone call so you can pass on the new rates (spoiler: it's 1% higher permanently each time).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 hours ago

A TACO says what?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

No problem. The boycott continues. If they don’t pay tax then they are stealing from us, so torrent away.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago

Jokes on them. Been torrenting their shit for a couple decades now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago

I've never wanted the Digital Services Tax more than right now, lol.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

So US bond sell off predicted on Monday boys

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

Not only are pig fucker mega tech profiting off Canadians tax free, and among the richest companies in the world, they are CIA/US empire militarist enablers/cooperators who will happily enslave Canadians to that empire. The fearmongering you are programmed about CCP allied companies, should be 1000x higher with US's declared war on Canada, and their tech companies.

Their profit extortion alone (not even revenues) is sufficient to overcome whatever small surpluses Canada has enjoyed over US in good trade. It is categorically treasonous and sickening that Canada's leadership continues military alignment with US.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago

The US has been really flaky lately. Have you tried rebooting it?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Why is it only 3%, what is it about being digital that avoids standard tax rates?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

3 % of billions of things is more than 15% of millions of things.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Sure but you take 3% out of my $10 and I have $9.70.

But take 15% out of your $100 and you still have $85.

They can pay their taxes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Thats false equivalency. Billions is the larger number and since a billion is 1000x a million, it would be 3% of their $10000 and 15% of your $10. So its their $300 tax vs your $1.50 tax. Sure they are still better off, however (un)fair that may be, but it was more in tax than you actually hold, by a wide margin.

Or course we could, and should, argue it should be reveresed, but thats just yelling in to the wind at this point.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

[Canada] has just announced that they are putting a Digital Services Tax on our American Technology Companies, which is a direct and blatant attack on our Country," Trump said.

Taxing Meta, Apple, and Amazon for business they do in Canada is an attack on the United States?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 hours ago

We didn't "just announce" it materialized three years ago and makes total sense to have in place from Canada's POV. Dumbass Trump is wrong and lying or both - yet again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Not sure what applies o amazon. They do have advertising/sponsored listings, but don't know if tax applies on overall business.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 hours ago

Amazon Web Services is the world’s most popular cloud provider and where a massive chunk of their revenue comes from. Lots of people don’t seem to know about it, but their logistics arms is almost like a side hustle compared to AWS

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

Someone told him those bunker bombs were from Canada.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 hours ago

U.S. President Donald Trump says he's pulling back from the bilateral trade discussions because Canada plans to move ahead with its digital services tax.

U.S. President Donald Trump says he's ending all trade discussions with Canada while signalling he may impose a blanket tariff to hit back at Ottawa for imposing a tax on web giants.

Gotta earn his bribes. As opposed to doing anything useful or competent.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

We can't do "business" with an unstable idiot.

It's best we ignore him, and keep working with countries who aren't lead by a total shit stain.

As an individual, I'm happy continuing to rapidly cull any American ties I have with brands and services.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

Try telling Carney, or your MP, that. My MP is a back bencher do nothing, Brad Rediccop, who has said that he has no plan on doing anything (in more professional words).

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 hours ago

Enable, disable, enable, disable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

Orange baby having a tantrum! Wahhh!!!!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 hours ago

I guess Carney was getting too much attention as "the Trump whisperer" for his ego to handle, so he wants to punish Canada and put Carney back in his place as he sees it.

I kind of suspected we would see something like this after seeing so much in media about Carney's success in managing the Trump relationship.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 hours ago

"I'm taking my toys and going home!"

"You owe me some tariff taxes on those."

"AAAAGGGGHHHHH!!!"

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 hours ago

Great. The US can fuck right off and when it’s done fucking off, it can fuck off some more. Until the end of time.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

Now's a pretty good time to end Microsoft licenses and other crap ass US platforms 🥰

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

The government and a lot of other companies are absolutely incapable of not using Excel and Azure services. It's possible they could teach people new tools but databases, tables, excel files, VBA stuff, SQL etc... Is just not going to get changed. Alternatives are way too expensive and the sheer amount of work to make sure every single ETL rule is followed would be absolutely insane. The cybersecurity alone will make it a no go.

No AI will not solve this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

You don't need excel, you could convert to libreoffice spreadsheets, there may be a few functions that need adjustment, but I have found its pretty much feature for feature. There are also so many SQL derivatives mariaDB, mySQL, postgresSQL. There would be a few pains, but as Europe has already realized we need data and software sovereignty

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Postgres is very cheap.

VB is garbage and anything using it should have been scrapped decades ago.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Now is the time to introduce higher Digital Services Tax rate.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 hours ago

I will be so pissed if Carney or anyone negotiating folds on anything. The US started all of this shitstorm. We (Canada) are the aggrieved party in this situation, we were following CUSMA, the US broke that agreement. Fuck the USA. Fuck concessions to the USA. They can fuck off into the Sun. I don't want or need Netflix, amazon, airbnb, Uber, google, azure, microsoft, apple. I could care less if those companies pull out of Canada.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 hours ago

I've been petitioning the councillors of my rural municipality to do this. I've sent them articles of much larger governments doing the same worldwide ceaselessly. I've emailed, called and texted (small towns are beneficial sometimes) every councillor personally. I have given them the number of several local computer techs who specialize in Linux systems and Foss software.

I encourage you all to do the same. Municipal governments are a great place to start pushing this trend and saving them money and adding security in the process.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Yep! I was wondering when my work was gonna shift away from using Microsoft, azure and SharePoint .

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago

I’ve been waiting thirty years

[–] [email protected] 14 points 12 hours ago

That's what they call a power move, Becky. "This conversation ends now" shows who's really in control, Becky. OMG, look at her butt.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 12 hours ago

Ah yes, he's the only government allowed to collect taxes.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Great news. But my Trump-BS-translator is going haywire: since this is a lie like everything Trump says, next week Carney is going to have some sort of deal with Trump.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago

Please don’t say that, I am scared Carney with bend over for him if it goes that fast! Luckily e do have a few agencies pushing for this.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 12 hours ago

Good. Fuck off.