特朗普称美国政府应从TikTok的售价中分得一杯羹

特朗普表示，他会批准微软收购TikTok，前提是政府能得到“很多钱”作为交换。他对微软的首席执行官萨蒂亚·纳德拉(Satya Nadella)说，“售价中的非常大一部分将不得不进入美国财政部，因为我们使得这笔交易有可能发生。” 法律分析人士指出，白宫一直在推动将TikTok出售给美国公司，这使得总统的这个付款要求变得十分不正常。

"一个总统提议美国政府从商业交易中分一杯羹，尤其是他一手策划的交易，是完全不正常的。这个想法非常不道德，而且很可能是非法的。"里士满大学法学教授卡尔-托比亚斯说。达特茅斯学院的经济史学家道格拉斯-欧文说，在富兰克林-罗斯福总统第一任期的早期，他的顾问们曾争论过美国是否应该与其他国家政府进行易货交易，但罗斯福先生最终拒绝了这个提议，决定通过谈判达成贸易协议。在罗斯福之后，再也没有哪位总统想纠缠到与外国公司的商业交易中。彼得森国际经济研究所的高级研究员加里-胡夫鲍尔则说，特朗普先生的建议让他想起了监督盐业垄断的中世纪国王。"如果你想开采一些盐，你就把钱放进皇家财政部"。

特朗普把他的这个提议类比成“房东与房客”，他在周一告诉记者，“如果没有租约，租户就一无所有。”他还说，”TikTok是一个伟大的资产...但除非它能得到美国政府的批准，否则它在美国就什么也不是。“至于具体该如何支付这笔钱，特朗普没有明确表示。白宫将如何付款的问题转交给了财政部，但是财政部发言人没有回应评论请求。

President Trump said he was ready to approve a purchase of the Chinese video-sharing app TikTok, but only if the government received “a lot of money” in exchange—an assertion of presidential power that appeared to lack precedent. Microsoft Corp. MSFT 5.62% said it hoped to acquire TikTok’s business in the U.S. and three other countries. Mr. Trump said he told the company’s chief executive Satya Nadella that “a very substantial portion of that price is going to have to come into the Treasury of the United States, because we’re making it possible for this deal to happen.” Legal analysts and others pointed out that the White House had been pushing for a sale of TikTok to U.S. owners, making the demand for payment all the more extraordinary. “It is completely unorthodox for a President to propose that the U.S. take a cut of a business deal, especially a deal that he has orchestrated. The idea also is probably illegal and unethical,” said Carl Tobias, a law professor at the University of Richmond. Douglas Irwin, a Dartmouth College economic historian, said that early in President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first term, his advisers debated whether the U.S. should cut barter deals with other governments, but Mr. Roosevelt ultimately rejected the idea and negotiated trade agreements instead. No president since has looked to get so deeply entwined with commercial deals with foreign companies, he said. Gary Hufbauer, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, said Mr. Trump’s proposal reminded him of medieval kings who oversaw salt monopolies. “If you wanted to mine some salt, you put money into royal Treasury,” he said.

“It’s a little bit like the landlord-tenant,” the president told reporters Monday at the White House. “Without a lease, the tenant has nothing.” “It’s a great asset,” Mr. Trump said of TikTok. “But it’s not a great asset in the United States unless they have the approval of the United States.” The White House referred questions on how a payment would work to the Treasury Department. A Treasury spokeswoman didn’t respond to a request for comment.  source



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建国把他小商小贩的思维拿出来了，难怪赌场也会被他搞破产！

太磨叽了。。美国政府还不如印度

谁出这笔钱？是字节跳动还是苹果？

tedazzn 发表于 2020-08-03 20:00:08
谁出这笔钱？是字节跳动还是苹果？

苹果都出来了.
还梨呢

川普就是相当国王😂

真就自由市场的捍卫者呗？

还“房东与租客”，说的是美国政府要对所有在美企业有随时赶走的权利呗，美国诟病我国的不正是这个？呵呵piapia打自己脸。就算这逻辑成立，要是这房东是无赖，租客就换别家去租了。你这地段能一直维持黄金地段，租客不断续租，进而凝聚人气是必不可少的。今天看到你房东老赖般对待某个租客，唇亡齿寒，要是租客都不续租了，跑了，租别家去了，倒霉的是你房东自己，而且你这地段也就不再黄金了。啥？美国大市场地段世界最好所以大家不愿意放弃？是，这是建立在大家都能玩儿下去的前提下的。要是租客隔三差五被勒令整改说有消防隐患（又找不出到底哪里有真的消防隐患，sounds familiar？），定期找来税务局强制交出公司账本核对，经营的利润要和房东分成，搞得租客玩儿不起了，那就只能拜拜了您内，大市场我消受不起。

搞，继续搞，我看大选之前川普还能整出什么幺蛾子