Tax is bad, says rich guy who doesn’t want to pay tax, and just arrived on his private jet, to enjoy some relaxation on his yacht, while half a dozen servants take care of everything for him, including wiping his ass.
Because billionaires getting their ass wiped, is good for the economy, average people living decent lives is not. Don’t believe the evidence, believe the billionaires!
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Schools are bad for education, says 8 year old who doesn’t want to go to school, but wants to play all day.2% wealth tax on fortunes worth more than €100m has been proposed by Gabriel Zucman, an economics professor who has become a household name in France.
This in my opinion is a very moderate suggestion. I would like 1% from €5m-100m too. If you have €5m you already have more than you need.
Best part is this tax wouldn’t have the slighest impact on his quality of life. His wealth would still grow faster than the rest of the economy.
Did anyone actually ask him?
Plenty of his money comes from France. He won’t leave, if he does, others want that exploitable population he’d leave behind.
Fuck your hollow threats
He isn’t the economy. The workers are.
But he’s a Job Creator or some shit
Cuase their job creators we have to treat them special. Job creators can’t go to jail or anything.
You know who else are job creators?
All of the people doing the actual work.
Vietnam would like a word.
Edit: I’m not pro death penalty (latest update has Vietnam actually removing it for this crime due to this case) but just showing the absolute night and day difference between how they treat capitalist that cause death and poverty through their greed.
When they inevitably try to pretend they are pulling business from new York when Mamdani becomes mayor. Please, everyone, use this as an opportunity to show how evil the structures of capitalism are.
It will be a perfect time to explain class conflict to your liberal friends. The interest of the people of New York will be held hostage by capital. And overwhelmingly popular policy will be talk about as “unrealistic” and “poor economics”.
Yes, that is why capitalist must lose their power. They are holding the popular policies of the people hostage. That power should not exist in their hands but the hands of the people.
Capitalism is incompatible with democracy. The economy and politics are not separate. We cannot have a dictatorship controlling our companies and economy and call it a “democratic process”.
Okay, but what if the financial sector launches a capital strike?
Cuba is a great example of the results. Powerful worker state, but it is bottled up and suffocated by the US led embargo.
I mean you said it yourself, it’s an embargo. Good luck doing that to France.
Then the world must go on labor strike. Capital requires our consent. Withdraw consent, seize the means of production and begin the class war. We are outgunned, but they are outnumbered, and we can easily get more guns once they can’t get any more numbers.
Viva Revolución, Viva Cuba Libre!
France is not comparable to Cuba in this scenario
Yep. Bad for the economy, good for the people.
Yacht sales will plummet by 5% though!
I think you are confused, why would it be bad for the economy?
“The economy” = rich people’s yachts.
Fellow socialist 🙌
The greedy weasel should pay his taxes and the French people do not fuck around when they know they are about to get screwed.
So tax it is!
Does being Europe’s richest man imply that he would be the person who would pay the most wealth tax?
If so, the headline isn’t going hard enough.
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Everyone else screaming: That is the point you rich fuck!
Uhh what? You admit that the point is to ruin the economy?
You guys should be more loud about this. Yell it from the rooftops.
Excellent time to go forward with this tax and make it even larger.
“Communism is when the powerful have to abide to the same laws as our serfs” - some powerful libertarian
oh no!
DO IT ANYWAYS
That’s often my reply. “well we haven’t tried it yet. We’ve tried trickle down economics for almost 4 decades. Why don’t we try a wealth tax for 20 years? You know, for science? Just to see how it works. THEN if it doesn’t work, we can roll it back. How does that sound?”
Some people really like being pissed on by rich people. Apparently.
If the ultra rich say your idea will ruin the economy - congratulations, you’ve got a great idea.
I’ve heard guillotines are deadly for the French economy too.
But the French already saw that movie so they’re probably trying to get in front of any repeat episode.May the separation of his cranium and rump lead to new insights
