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Re:Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big by enricozb on Friday August 08, 2025 @03:58AM (#44834637)
However it also prevents hoarding wealth, which in turn prevents special interest groups and some forms of election manipulation.

Balancing taxes for fairness and innovation is quite tricky...

Re:Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big by logicchains on Friday August 08, 2025 @04:09AM (#44834704)
>However it also prevents hoarding wealth

Hoarding wealth isn't a problem if no wealth creation happens in the first place.

Re:Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big by procaryote on Friday August 08, 2025 @04:33AM (#44834814)
An exit tax in itself does nothing to prevent hoarding of wealth. It might enable you to deploy other taxes that would make rational people leave the country, but it's a bit of a "lock the doors and rob people" strategy.

If you have good advisors as a wealthy person you know this and leave as soon as an exit tax is on the table. If you start new businesses you start them outside of the country

If you're a regular non-wealthy person who happens to become successful you're stuck paying high taxes of course, but you'll probably learn and structure your next venture better.

Re:Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big by swexbe on Friday August 08, 2025 @05:03AM (#44834962)
Most businesses are not as portable as a tech startup.
Re:Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big by procaryote on Saturday August 09, 2025 @03:59AM (#44844823)
Ownership is though.
Re:Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big by shankr on Friday August 08, 2025 @09:43AM (#44836854)
Most of Scandinavia is rife with old money. It's just that new entrants aren't allowed to build wealth.

https://www.euronews.com/business/2024/04/01/wealth-inequali...

Re:Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big by enricozb on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @03:14AM (#44885492)
This article seems to argue that the cause of the inequality is the lack of taxes