Multinational digital companies screw the rest of us out of millions of dollars in taxes. In the US, this adds up to $130 billion a year.

This is why America can no longer do things right: the wealthy in America have stopped providing funds for what America needs to do.

To the extent that international agreements about taxation get in the way of fixing this problem, states must defy the agreements and fix the problem anyway. But that requires voting out the politicians who would rather say they can't do this than dare to try.

A progressive tax on a business's gross income could help fix this.