who knew ‘free’ was gonna cost 15% 🙄

Every CEO in America is vying for this position right now en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groom_o...

Take a read of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social ‘s 2020 “Hiding in Plain Sight”- everything makes (pretty horrifying) sense with her framing. She clocked it, brought the reciepts, predicted what would happen. The Trump admin is a node in a trans/supra-national criminal organization…

When future companies complain about minimum tax rates & suggest that they may leave the US for that reason, future Presidents should refer to this experiment & not dither in enforcing fair corporate taxes. If they can afford 15% in bribery as cost of doing business, they can pay taxes too.

Isn't this a "windfall tax"? Indeed the GOP is the party of business/party of small government.

I … uh … wow.

Grift grift grift

That's a tax on us.

It's just fascism all the way down.

Next time my company tells me to take ethics training, I'm going to remind them we don't do that here anymore

The next Panama Papers are just gonna be someone reporting on where this money really ended up

It is simply an export tax to encourage domestic Chinese production of advanced semiconductors.

Is this not extortion? Is this not a protection racket? Fat Donnie is a wannabe mob boss. Wake the fuck up, America.

FT says “unusual”. Simple extortion.

Amazing how the China security issues go away once the protection money is paid.

It's called ransome

*ransom

They could just… pay taxes

And for years all these companies said they couldn't pay taxes, it would hurt them and the consumer...lol. it is so hypocritical how quickly they have rolled over. Dems better never listen to them cry poor again when (if) they see power next.

So there's a price for selling secure tech to China- forget the consequences for US? Just money now? Guess it could have gone directly to Trump but who knows...

Man I was gonna post about how it smacks of mercantilism (y'all know it as the economic worldview so obsolete it was literally killed by Adam Smith himself) but everyone here has takes that are even more dark and scary What a time

Extorter in Chief.

I gotta try and understand how this is a thing. That looks an awful lot like an old school shakedown.

Anyone have a gift-link?

This is literally communism.

Nothing like having voted in a bunch of mobsters running a protection racket! WELL DONE, AMERICA!

Reverse Tariffs? Rariffs? Are we in a Scooby Doo episode??

Bribery or extortion? With corporations and corrupt government, it's hard to distinguish.

It's an extortion racket run by the "President"

Crony Command Style Capitalism. It’s confusing, inefficient, and weighs on growth in the long run.

Do you think the general population of the US was supposed to know about this arrangement??

The payments will be done in TrumpCoin through the Trump presidential library fund and hand delivered on Trump Air Force 1.