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What if Apple moves their HQ out of the country...


There is no place to go.

We need to fix here because we actually have a shot of fixing it here.


Iceland with its pirate political party, and it still belongs to the European Economic Area, or Ireland, which has a growing tech sector, and it is part of the EU. Ireland is a tax-haven too. The U.S. government complains about Apple's tax havens, but the revenue lost by this move in jobs, and money in the U.S. is quite a bargaining chip.


Julian Assange set up shop outside of the US, now he lives in the basement of an office building.


Julian Assange isn't an American citizen, so why would he have ever "set up shop" in America?


I made my point less clear by trying to be concise. I just meant that in a lot of ways the influence of the United States isn't limited by its borders.




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