Comment by Workaccount2
Comment by Workaccount2 2 days ago
The US is a bully because wealthy people want to live, work with, have assets, or even have citizenship in the US. The US is very business friendly and offers top-tier everything if you have money.
Wealthy people though are accustomed to having their cake and eating it too, so naturally they will try to take as much as they can while giving back as little as they can manage. Their wealth will carry them very far towards this goal, so the US cannot be soft when it comes collecting.
Its like saying you need to be hard on terrorism or drugs problems, so that you can actually fix that. We know how that worked in past 100 years...
What it will collect is totally negligible in US budget and won't make dent in anything (compared to say companies like Apple or Google skimming paying taxes by tens of billions yearly), and it won't make many friends to US.
But sure, chase them, chase them hard, I have literally no skin in that game. I guess as long as really serious problems are ignored government is happy.