What consequences are expected for the European Union after Apple was ordered to pay a fine of 13 billion?

2024-09-27 10:46:23

No one will want to open a large business in the EU

The EU has no advantages over Asian countries. The 50% tax is too high, for example, in Singapore it is 0%. Russia's military conflict with Ukraine also makes it difficult to do business, as sanctions hit the EU itself, raising prices for all energy resources, which directly affects the prices of goods and services.

The essence of the claim is that all EU countries must take the same taxes at 50%, and if a country is an EU member, it cannot make tax preferences on its own. Most likely, countries will soon begin to leave the EU, as the United Kingdom did.

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Is democracy the power of the majority?

2023-10-05 08:29:15

No, 51% is more than half, but it's not an absolute 3/4 majority.

Democracy is essentially an oligarchy (aristocracy). If earlier the aristocracy around the world made decisions without the participation of the masses (until the beginning of the twentieth century - if citizens had the right to vote, it was only on property, race and other parameters), now, thanks to political technologies, the same thing is happening, only on the basis of manipulation of the capital of the masses. In addition, no one teaches political literacy, and therefore the politically illiterate population chooses someone from the appointees of the elite by unfair voting.

Only elites participate in the parliamentary process. Citizens of the state are allowed to vote for their chosen candidate, but ordinary people cannot participate in elections. In the end, only the ruling elite decides the various interests of the population of the state.

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What will happen to Russia's national debt?

2022-05-25 05:16:33

Russia will pay the national debt in rubles

The United States refused russia to extend the license to service the external debt

If creditors refuse to accept payments in rubles, a technical default will be declared.

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Did COVID happen in the laboratory?

2022-10-25 09:34:52

The laboratory origin is indirectly confirmed by the fact that the natural source of the coronavirus has not yet been found. It was searched for in bats, snakes and pangolins, but not a single genetic chain of viruses of these animals coincided with SARS-CoV-2 so that the entire scientific community considered them their original hosts.

The Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) has been studying coronaviruses in bats for more than 10 years. And his lab is located just a few kilometers from the Huanan Market, where the first cluster of infections originated. Proponents of the theory say that the leakage of the virus could - intentionally or accidentally - occur in a laboratory, from where it hit the market and spread around the world.

The WHO report said it was very likely that Covid reached humans from bats through an intermediate carrier. To this day, however, scientists have not found a virus that matches the genetic makeup of COVID-19 in bats or other animals.

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