Trump minaccia una guerra commerciale globale. L’Europa deve lanciare un’alternativa radicale

The Guardian opinion … so about as batshit insane as expected. Try to boost competitiveness of European economy? Or maybe expand trade agreements to bypass US? Nah, who needs that.

Instead simply try to extract more money out of American companies and try to somehow tax wealth of American individuals.

>To illustrate how this would work in practice, consider Tesla. Imagine that it pays no corporate or carbon tax in the US but makes 5% of its sales in Britain. The UK Treasury would calculate what Tesla should have paid in the US if British tax law applied there and collect 5% of that amount. Similarly, Britain would step in to tax Elon Musk proportionally to the amount of his wealth that originates from the UK (which, since his fortune is mainly in Tesla stock, can be estimated to be about 5%).

“How to become Cuba” in one, easy step.

This reads like it was written by a 14 year old, both in terms of language and content.

This will make Europe stronger even if in the beginning it’s difficult. What are we importing from the US?

Read some pretty dumb ideas but this takes the cake.

What this genius’ radical alternative and response to tariffs is… a tariff with extra steps.