"To make our economies secure and protect the earner way of life that has defined the modern era, we need wealth taxes that end the two-tier treatment of wealth," says a new report.
  • @[email protected]English
    12•4 months ago

    tax of 1.7% to 3.5% to the richest 0.5% of the country’s households

    We could try something more like a 95% wealth tax and really fix some problems.

  • FiveMacsEnglish
    10•4 months ago

    Tax em so hard they can’t kill the planet anymore.

  • RubberDuckEnglish
    9•4 months ago

    Two thousand one hundred… billion.

    2.100.000.000.000

    By marginally taxing a group of people you could fit on a cruise ship…

    • @[email protected]English
      6•4 months ago

      Yes yes, true, but then they would have less money. They might even have to rescind their membership of the Three Comma Club, and could you have that on your conscience?

  • moxEnglish
    7•4 months ago

    I wonder how much money could be raised without new or raised taxes, but simply by closing tax evasion avoidance loopholes used by rich people and corporations.

  • LauraEnglish
    5•4 months ago

    how about we just kill the 1000 richest people on earth and take their wealth

    • Icalasari
      8•4 months ago

      That does seem more realistic than them allowing people to take their wealth. I swear they are like dragons - They’ll cling to their hoard even if it means their death