Imagine we discover a planet of highly advanced aliens in our solar system, who'd been managing to cloak themselves from us. They are extremely prosperous, their poorest person looks like our Jeff Bezos.
Would you support legislation that attempted to tax them in some way?
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I'd support gently petitioning the aliens to share some of their intellectual property, in exchange for some of our more distinctive cultural innovations, such as cubism and dubstep.
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That would be like children trying to tax their parents. Not gonna work.
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We don’t even tax people in other countries, another planet is gonna be pretty tough
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Absolutely not but I would immediately ask them how their markets work and take very detailed notes. Probably try initiating trade too
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