Mamdani, the presumptive Democratic nominee to be the next mayor of New York and a self-identified democratic socialist, said Sunday billionaires contribute to inequality.
It will lead to more dark money. It’s very hard to accurately measure a persons net worth when their financials aren’t just a house and an IRA like the average person. Especially if they don’t want you to see it. You’ll never be able to implement that tax in a consistent way.
Yes, that’s the current situation, thanks for pointing that out. I don’t think people understand how much tax evasion they do, for instance as of 2016 there was £36 TRILLION in offshore tax havens, UK GDP is £25 trillion for comparison. Murder in the first degree can get you prison for life, but letting countless people die from poverty related issues at home while getting rich off of starving and killing kids overseas makes you a billionaire. Why do we accept that?
law is inherently flawed and easily manipulated by clever sociopaths. chaotic good FTW. let there be guillotines and morally sound citizens and nothing more.
Laws are written to be manipulated, that’s why European culture uses laws and words as weapons, for European culture loves words to be twisted. This is why the “truth” always changes in the European mind, look no further than their use of “treaties” or “truces” or their fad-politics. Whether it’s far-right capitalism or left-wing socialism, I fail to see the difference when they both rely on “production at all costs” at the expense of our natural world and turning our habitable environments into gravel pits and uranium mines all in the name of “productivity.” The global south, or “third world”, and natural peoples will all be capitalist workerbees or socialist proletarian under the European death-cult of “productivity” as they call it; I call it a culture of suicide with a medieval religious devotion to their faith except now it’s shifted to science, technology, and money - just another example of how the truth always changes. They’re incapable of any real thought, incapable of simply appreciating the magic of nature to admire a lake or mountain or people in being, and most of all they cannot listen unless the world around them is despiritualized into mechanical models and dead symbols written on dead leaves.
To me I don’t see the shift towards left-wing, even the death of capitalism, to be revolutionary. It may be yet another revolution for the European mind, but to the rest of the world it’s merely a continuation. In order for humanity to live in harmony with nature, European culture must die.
Huh, curious, I could swear we Germans (and most other countries I’m sure) used to do just that until a glorious neoliberal government came along and abolished the tax.
It will lead to more dark money. It’s very hard to accurately measure a persons net worth when their financials aren’t just a house and an IRA like the average person. Especially if they don’t want you to see it. You’ll never be able to implement that tax in a consistent way.
Yes, that’s the current situation, thanks for pointing that out. I don’t think people understand how much tax evasion they do, for instance as of 2016 there was £36 TRILLION in offshore tax havens, UK GDP is £25 trillion for comparison. Murder in the first degree can get you prison for life, but letting countless people die from poverty related issues at home while getting rich off of starving and killing kids overseas makes you a billionaire. Why do we accept that?
law is inherently flawed and easily manipulated by clever sociopaths. chaotic good FTW. let there be guillotines and morally sound citizens and nothing more.
Laws are written to be manipulated, that’s why European culture uses laws and words as weapons, for European culture loves words to be twisted. This is why the “truth” always changes in the European mind, look no further than their use of “treaties” or “truces” or their fad-politics. Whether it’s far-right capitalism or left-wing socialism, I fail to see the difference when they both rely on “production at all costs” at the expense of our natural world and turning our habitable environments into gravel pits and uranium mines all in the name of “productivity.” The global south, or “third world”, and natural peoples will all be capitalist workerbees or socialist proletarian under the European death-cult of “productivity” as they call it; I call it a culture of suicide with a medieval religious devotion to their faith except now it’s shifted to science, technology, and money - just another example of how the truth always changes. They’re incapable of any real thought, incapable of simply appreciating the magic of nature to admire a lake or mountain or people in being, and most of all they cannot listen unless the world around them is despiritualized into mechanical models and dead symbols written on dead leaves.
To me I don’t see the shift towards left-wing, even the death of capitalism, to be revolutionary. It may be yet another revolution for the European mind, but to the rest of the world it’s merely a continuation. In order for humanity to live in harmony with nature, European culture must die.
Thing is, that ability to evade that is intentionally built in. It has to be. We have KYC laws here and anything over 10K is tracked.
The fact that the ultrawealthy are able to manipulate money in ways so that it’s not tracked and/or not taxed has to be by design.
That’s why accountants and auditors exist.
If you’re suggesting that it shouldn’t be done because its too hard – it’s not. That’s just a dumb excuse.
Huh, curious, I could swear we Germans (and most other countries I’m sure) used to do just that until a glorious neoliberal government came along and abolished the tax.