• lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    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.

        • CircaV@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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          3 days ago

          Does it target the billionaire tach bros or will Canadians pay it? Which one is it?? If Canadians are gonna pay it - why would Trump care? If it targets billionaire bros - big whoop! It’s so small it doesn’t even register.

          • Routhinator@startrek.websiteEnglish
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            3 days ago

            Canadians pay it and are hopefully turned to other options, smaller companies, and hopefully Canadian ones. That would drive Amazon’s business down, and that hurts the billionaires more than the tax.

      • madcaesar@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        Becuase it maaaaaaybe dissuades SOME people from buying the service so there’s maaaaaaybe less revenue for the mega corps.

        So yea… It maybe kinda sorta… Hurts mega corps, but it absolutely is a tax paid by Canadians.

        Now you might say the tax is good because it funds shit for Canadians, but that’s a separate argument.

        So yea, this is maybe? good for Canadians, since Canadians are getting absolutely FUCKED by anything digital / mobile / internet related.

        If anything I’d love to see the Canadian market forced open for US telecoms, because as shitty as telecom is in the US its far FAR worse in Canada.

    • patatas@sh.itjust.works
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      3 days ago

      It only applies to a few enormous corporations, that mostly generate revenue through ad sales.

      Would Canadian companies really all have increased their Facebook ad budgets over this? I kinda doubt it, tbh