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One of the major points of our party for the upcoming election is to introduce a tax on people with a net worth of over 5 million euro. The tax has been calculated by independent checkers and it is estimated that it will rake in 8 to 10 billion euro annually.

Everyone and their mother is now saying that a tax like that would be a disaster as every rich people 'will just flee the country'. Which they will not, as has been shown by previous countries like France introducing a similar tax FOR DECADES with less than 0.2% of the rich people leaving.

But what saddens me the most is that so many people just accept this threat as normal. Like, what does it say about our system if rich people hoarding all the wealth without contributing to society can throw a fit and leave? Is that not a sick system to live in? You off all people are the one creating the wealth for these people. Be mad, please. Be outraged that they dare to do something like that, while our government is planning to cut the budgets of healthcare, education, public transport and whatnot. For fuck's sake have some dignity.

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[โ€“] 666@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've always wanted to destroy my chamber of commerce.

[โ€“] Halasham@dormi.zone 2 points 5 months ago

I'd love to see the whole of the American Dystopia reduced to ash and bad memories.