Re:California plan for wealth tax on anyone who spends 60 da...
by nec4b on Saturday December 19, 2020 @12:56PM
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You mean something like a Berlin wall to stop the people leaving the paradise or a new kind of serfdom, where one should be tied to the land in which he was born?
Re:California plan for wealth tax on anyone who spends 60 da...
by throwaway316943 on Saturday December 19, 2020 @01:37PM
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Nailed it, serfdom was implemented exactly for the purpose of preventing tax evasion. Something something... doomed to repeat it.
Re:California plan for wealth tax on anyone who spends 60 da...
by ABCLAW on Saturday December 19, 2020 @01:59PM
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I dunno why this is downvoted. This phrase: "the problem seems to be we can't tax the rich because they take advantage of globalism to move their money around"
Is a tiny distillation of one of the most difficult problems facing legislators intending to mitigate wealth inequality across their society: if the rich get upset, they can just take their toys and leave.
This is, from the perspective of legislative generations, a very new problem that has crystallized in the past 40 years with the expansion and standardization of international trade law.
Re:California plan for wealth tax on anyone who spends 60 da...
by markus_zhang on Saturday December 19, 2020 @12:58PM
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They have great influences among the lawmakers. Rich people won't get themselves taxed(in general)
Re:California plan for wealth tax on anyone who spends 60 da...
by throwawaysea on Saturday December 19, 2020 @01:03PM
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> the problem seems to be we can't tax the rich because they take advantage of globalism to move their money around
The problem is that different places have different values and policies and compete with each other? The problem is that people have the audacity to disagree with governments and seek out different ways of living? Sorry but any proposal that disincentivizes or punishes free movement is atrocious and totalitarian. And I mean that literally.
Couldn't they just limit the amount you can emigrate from the country with.
So if you emigrate, you can only take a maximum of, say, €10 mill.
i.e. earn it in France, using French laws, a French education and French infrastructure, it stays in France.
Obviously it clashes with EU free movement, but basically the problem seems to be we can't tax the rich because they take advantage of globalism to move their money around.
Isn't the solution to stop them moving it, rather than giving up?