You're already doing your best damn job to discriminate and bilk against American tech. It's not working. All the GDPR succeeded in doing with Facebook was in catalyzing them to come up with a creative solution to basically ship your users over to American shores:
Facebook to put 1.5bn users out of reach of new EU GDPR privacy law
Yeah, god forbid some countries actually do something against russian social engineering.
And if we're gonna do the thing we where don't just talk about trade imbalances within the context of
trade, but all profit/cost offsets and imbalances, then I want your NATO deficits factored in. I want your derivative IP-market with regard to pharmaceuticals and how basically you're all piggybacking off American consumer dollars:
Why Do Drugs Cost Less in Canada?
Heads up to all sherdoggers not used to waddling through research.
If you find an article that talks about numbers, yet presents no numbers, its not really an article, its merely an opinion.
Drug prices are expensive in the US because you have a for profit system. US drug companies spend far more literally bribing doctors than in R&D.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...esearch/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.a8f6e2b6017f
And the whole "US has to charge more to recoup R&D" has long been debunked.
https://www.citizen.org/sites/default/files/rdmyths.pdf
Of course to actually understand the issue you may need to wade through relativelly long articles with small letters, charts and a pretty boring research paper writing style.
There's so many damn ways like this that you Europeans are being carried by Americans, and you take it all for granted. You're so damn ungrateful.
Again with this "being carried", to imply being free.
This is like United Airlines saying "Be fucking glad you dont have to drive thanks to us, bitch, we will beat as many people and kill as many pets as we want fucking freeloader." as if you didnt paid for the ticket, just because you arent in the aviation sector doesnt means you are leeching off it when you take an airplane.
Yeah, the US is a leader in innovation, and that innovation isnt free, as
@JDragon pointed out, Europeans shell out an excess 100 billions for said innovation.
Maybe you need Trump to remind you what a sweet deal you've had. I want to do business, but don't talk to me about my best interests like I would ever in a million fucking years be stupid enough to believe that you'd put my interests before yours. We Americans have reached our tether with this attitude.
This is you and most Trump supporters on the trade war.
The EU trade surplus with the US is used to purchase US services, eliminating the surplus wont make the US "richer" it will simply reorganize the economic relationship until it finds a balance, and meanwhile it will spook markets and probably lead to another global recession.