The profits of tech giants are rising sharply. This adds to the effort to raise taxes

A blockbuster movie, a gruesome score, or a quarter of a dream are some of the phrases that have emerged in recent days regarding the financial numbers of the biggest US tech companies. Alphabet, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft earned a total of $ 66 billion in the first three months of this year after tax, double what they did in the same period last year. And it still lacks the Amazon numbers to be published on Thursday evening.

However, higher profits could lead to higher calls for higher taxes. At the same time, steps aimed at the massive dominance of these companies were not excluded.

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