Posted on 08/19/2011 5:49:41 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
>>a financial and regulatory Berlin Wall to stop all but the most determined.
That’s a really good analogy.
Shades of the USSR, and of your work, Travis!
They’ll enforce it the same way California enforced the Amazon Tax, and with the same results.
All you have to do is read history to write tomorrow. It’s that easy. There is nothing new under the sun. Just new gadgets, but the human-nature principles hold.
Eh, with the age of the internet, foreign businesses don’t have to have a physical presence in the US to do business with US customers. Which would mean that they aren’t conducting the business in the US, but at their home sites in the foreign countries.
All they would really need to do is advertise in America about their product (ie: banking)... and even that can be handled by an overseas company; who’d then place the ads on TV, in magazines, on the internet, etc.
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