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No. As a taxpayer, my money is already going to 1230987587123 government frivolities. I don't need to be funding infrastructure for bigcorps any more than I already am.

e: To the downvoters, do you seriously believe that Tesla, Apple, MSFT, Amazon, etc require MORE government assistance?

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We could try taxing corporations again. Just a thought.

Or just the critically undersupported infra fail. The world will not end, and the money will magically appear out of thin air, guaranteed, and the public wouldn't even have to pay for it.

I do realize that living without uber eats/electronic banking/social media for a few days is unfortunately, untenable for the vast majority of the population.

We do tax corporations in America, at a rate which is in the middle of the pack worldwide.

Corporate taxes are passed on to consumers. It will still be individual citizens paying for it.

> e: To the downvoters, do you seriously believe that Tesla, Apple, MSFT, Amazon, etc require MORE government assistance?

This is just throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Just because big tech companies happen to build on FOSS projects doesn't mean that the FOSS maintenance shouldn't be borne by everyone, given they benefit everyone (including the governments themselves). And in fact, if the Big Tech companies paid their tax, they'd contribute as much (if not more!) as everyone.

How do you qualify this as "throwing the baby out with the bathwater" and not the suggestion of yielding government control of OSS? That is the disproportionate reaction, and I urge anyone pushing for more government control/spending to catch up on history.

They don't benefit everyone, and even among those who benefit, not everybody benefits equally.

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