If the issue is with general tax compliance of large multinationals, then congress should have done something about that. This tax rule has hit small software businesses particularly badly, so much so that it'll practically strengthen the quasi-monopoly of established players.
> strengthen the quasi-monopoly of established players.
When are we going to break the majors up already? Google should be like seven different companies. YouTube is bigger than Netflix for Christ's sake.
Demand antitrust enforcement!
There's so much value pent up and wasted in Google today that it'll be worth more as divisible parts. They're practically giving half of the value away for free and wasting it on implementing the same thing four times before cancelling it.
And Apple and Amazon...
These giants are basically stifling the US startup ecosystem and putting a valuation cap on innovation. They're also ripping apart other industries by moving in and undercutting costs with subsidized offerings detached from the underlying economics. They're like invasive species destroying the ecosystem, eating up everything, completely immune to competition. And if that's not reason enough for you, they're putting massive wage pressure on our profession.
Small business software has largely been offshoring their development teams for years anyway.
For a long while now, every small US-based company I look at hiring engineers have their teams in South America or Eastern Europe.