• k0e3
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    13 days ago

    What? The digital service tax was for the American corporations to pay.

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      13 days ago

      And they’re absolutely never going to raise prices for Canadians to compensate right?

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          12 days ago

          What is the price to use Facebook?

          Hundreds of ads being shoved in your face.

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          12 days ago

          What they charge Canadian advertisers. That cost is then budgeted in the products and services.

          Nothing is free.

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        13 days ago

        That wasn’t the argument OP was making.

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      12 days ago

      That foreign corporations would pay out of their Canadian sales.

      Which would certainly cause them to increase the fees they charge their Canadian customers so they don’t have to reduce their profits.

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        12 days ago

        I’m well aware that’s what they might do to offset their costs, but OP saying that the corporations us Canadians will have to pay the tax is plain wrong. They’re probably conflating it with tariffs.

        And sorry ‒ off topic question. I haven’t lived in Canada in years, but do we really say “y’all” now? That’s kinda weird.

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          12 days ago

          but do we really say “y’all” now? That’s kinda weird.

          Yes it’s weird, it is another example of creeping American influence.