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Re:Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit –... by downWidOutaFite on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @01:02PM (#36313221)
> some governments go with taxation before u-turning some years later when they’ve driven away or killed whatever it is they were hoping to tax.

Examples or I don't believe that happens, maybe very rarely.

Re:Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit –... by andromeduck on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @01:40PM (#36313765)
Wealth taxee are the classic example. Plenty of countries have tried
Re:Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit –... by downWidOutaFite on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @01:54PM (#36313968)
If plenty of countries have tried give an example where the rich fled and the country reversed the tax
Re:Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit –... by jarym on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @02:05PM (#36314170)
Re:Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit –... by downWidOutaFite on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @08:42PM (#36319735)
one guy.

The fact is rich people can afford to live wherever they like more than anyone else. There's no reason for them to leave if they don't want to. But if they do leave and they're famous sometimes they'll take the opportunity to score political points.

Re:Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit –... by jarym on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @03:09AM (#36322491)
Yea I don’t think the poster is particularly interested in doing his own research, only defending his point of view while asking others for examples before finding a reason to pick at them.

Thank you for your comprehensive list of links though!

Re:Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit –... by jarym on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @03:11AM (#36322504)
> one guy.

Yes, because you asked for ‘an example’. As in you asked for ‘one’.

You’re determined to stick to your point of view, you’re entitled to do that of course. But why pretend you’re interested in a debate or discussion on the matter when you’re clearly not?

Re:Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit –... by Applejinx on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @02:01PM (#36314083)
Pretty sure the trick there is to just take a trickle, not try to get a flood of income out of wealth taxation.

NO amount of this is going to be acceptable to the wealthy, but there's gonna be a threshold between resentful grumbling and panicked flight, and that threshold is not at zero. And the usefulness of a wealth tax kicks in WAY closer to zero than the panic flight threshold is.

Re:Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit –... by jarym on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @01:25PM (#36313555)
You're free to choose what you believe, I'm not here to convince you. But one of the older examples is the 'window tax' https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transforming...
Re:Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit –... by downWidOutaFite on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @01:50PM (#36313913)
A tax from 1696 that was replaced 154 years later? Nothing was driven away or killed so it's not even a proper example.
Re:Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit –... by jarym on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @02:09PM (#36314238)
You asked for an example. I provided one. The result of this policy was people were bricking up windows and it was eventually undone because it didn't work. So yes, 'windows' were 'killed' and consequently the expected tax revenue that was expected from them. I would counter that it is a valid example.

A more recent example in the UK would be the pensions cap which had the unintended effect of sending people into early retirement because it became uneconomical to continue working. This impacted especially doctors in the NHS and contributed to a labour shortage. The government finally corrected the folly 2 months ago.