Speaking after a meeting with Bavaria’s state Cabinet atop the Zugspitze mountain, Germany’s highest peak, Merz said that continuing with the 15% minimum tax in Europe would put the continent’s economy at a disadvantage.

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    How do you think the USA tax their citizens living abroad (they tax by passport, not by residence)? Send in the military and take it by force? Probably not, but if you want to return I guess you should better have paid your taxes each year.

    Ban the company from selling products in Germany unless they pay some arbitrary amount like North Korea

    It may come as a surprise to you, but we ban a lot of products from entering the EU for a large variety of reasons. This wouldn’t be the worst reason.

    How do you think we are making Apple comply with the EU mandated USB-C charging port? We don’t allow iPhones without it into the shared market, that’s how.

    You imply something that is frankly crazy. Not even Zimbabwe tried anything like that, and they stole huge swathes of land and ended up with a starving population.

    See above. Also, Zimbabwe is one small and rather unimportant country. We are talking about an international treaty with more than 140 member countries. A company can divest from Zimbabwe. Let’s see them do it with these 140 countries.

    Frankly, you’re being ridiculous.