Google assigns profits from various EU countries to Bermuda, through tax loopholes in Ireland and the Netherlands.

The obvious response is for other EU countries to legislate that Google (and other multinationals) may not dodge their national taxes in this way. I think the reason they do not is that the EU does not allow this. Would leaving the EU enable the UK to tax these companies as they should be taxed?

I would be very interested in talking with an expert.

Does it make a difference that "the CEOs of four of the [US's] five biggest defense contractors — Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics and the defense arm of Boeing — are now women"?

I do not believe the claim that female political leaders will in general be less violent or less brutal than male leaders. They seem to vary much as male leaders do.

But we are talking here about business leaders of the US military-industrial complex. They do not decide directly whether to fight any war or repress anyone. But they constantly sponsor persuasion that encourages war in a general way, and encourages repression at least indirectly. More concretely, they impoverish Americans by diverting ever more of the country's resources to buying arms from their companies.

Let's not get distracted from this by their gender.

US citizens: call on Congress to resist both building a physical border wall and any other new deportation efforts that the bully wants.

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US citizens: call on Congress to pay the wages of federal contract workers that had no income during the shutdown.

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US citizens: call on Congress to close and investigate the bully's prison camps for refugee minors.

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