{"id":565,"date":"2026-01-19T17:48:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T16:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robert-metzler.com\/?p=565"},"modified":"2026-01-19T17:52:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T16:52:05","slug":"565","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robert-metzler.com\/?p=565","title":{"rendered":"Reaction to : US, Donald Dumb to impose tariffs to blackmail EU to abandone Greenland."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So are the news.  Here&#8217;s my reaction :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Reaction to Greenland - EU Internet Taxes now for US tech !\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_cT_sC9FNzY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dear Europe, European Parliament, European leaders, and all European people, looking at these threats from our quote unquote ally, don&#8217;t you think it&#8217;s now time to look again at implementing the EU internet taxes to specifically tax the US billionaires high-tech companies? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am not talking about the 2% that were suggested last year and not even passed, but I&#8217;m talking about average taxes like you and me also pay. 25% on their revenues could be a good level to start with. This could be used to support or build up our own high-tech and software industry and help cover the extended financial requirements for enabling the EU defense. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Besides a nice answer to threats like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And while we are at it, stop US companies from evacuating their revenues to other low tax countries by shifting the cost to EU and have them pay realistic taxes eventually. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dear Mr. Merz (German Chancellor), finally we might need the Ramstein air base for our European defense strategy ourselves. So you want to cancel the contract with the US Army, please?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So are the news. Here&#8217;s my reaction : Dear Europe, European Parliament, European leaders, and all European people, looking at these threats from our quote unquote ally, don&#8217;t you think it&#8217;s now time to look again at implementing the EU internet taxes to specifically tax the US billionaires high-tech companies? I am not talking about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/robert-metzler.com\/?p=565\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201eReaction to : US, Donald Dumb to impose tariffs to blackmail EU to abandone Greenland.\u201c <\/span>weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,2,91,93,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eu","category-general","category-politics","category-us-politics","category-ww-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robert-metzler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robert-metzler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robert-metzler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robert-metzler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robert-metzler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robert-metzler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":567,"href":"https:\/\/robert-metzler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions\/567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robert-metzler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robert-metzler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robert-metzler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}