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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Only resorting to protectionism if not done by all countries at the same time, evicting radically from their marketplace any company that does not comply.<br><br>I dare suggest the mere impossibility of such a scheme is what finally brought down the Berlin wall.<br><br>It takes a far more conscious civic movement to impose this kind of protectionism as a de facto reality rather than a political imposition. When dodging taxes translates automatically into brutally losing sales to aware citizens.<br><br>Like when Microsoft collaborating with the NSA translates automagically into sufficient people switching over to Linux on their existing machines, and refusing to buy any new computer with Windows preinstalled.<br><br><br>Antonio.<br><br><div>> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 07:46:08 -0400<br>> From: rms@gnu.org<br>> To: pp.international.general@lists.pirateweb.net<br>> CC: pp.international.general@lists.pirateweb.net<br>> Subject: Re: [pp.int.general] Basic income - how does that fit into the pirate ideology?<br>> <br>> [ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider<br>> [ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,<br>> [ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example.<br>> <br>> Small sarcastic footnote, Switserland is a country that has the funds to<br>> do this. <br>> <br>> Any developed country can have the funds for a basic income<br>> (or whatever else is needed) if it stops businesses and the rich<br>> from tax-dodging.<br>> <br>> -- <br>> Dr Richard Stallman<br>> President, Free Software Foundation<br>> 51 Franklin St<br>> Boston MA 02110<br>> USA<br>> www.fsf.org www.gnu.org<br>> Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.<br>> Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.<br>> <br>> ____________________________________________________<br>> Pirate Parties International - General Talk<br>> pp.international.general@lists.pirateweb.net<br>> http://lists.pirateweb.net/mailman/listinfo/pp.international.general<br></div> </div></body>
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