LVMH owner Bernard Arnault, who could take €1bn hit, says proposed 2% levy ‘aims to destroy liberal economy’
  • Ileftreddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    2 hours ago

    Of course he’s gonna say that

    Taxes on the working class are a gigantic portion of our income- billionaires taxes going up would literally be the equivalent of like a parking ticket for a working person. Inconvenient but you pay it and forget about it in a week.

    Billionaires could and should be taxed at like 90% or more for income, and there should be a wealth or net worth tax for every single billionaire. The fucked up thing is that we (in the US) HAD THIS TAX CODE until Reagan fucked us all in the ass

    The us tax system literally gave us a middle class and built the highways and created the largest economy on earth. AND THERE WERE STILL RICH PEOPLE

    THERE WERE STILL OBSCENELY WEALTHY PEOPLE EVEN UNDER THAT TAX CODE

  • Fleur_@aussie.zoneEnglish
    22·
    3 hours ago

    I don’t actually care about the economy. Improve my material conditions please

    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
      161·
      4 hours ago

      Confirmed by this quote in the article. Certified motherfucker.

      Arnault, who lives in Paris, sparked a French national debate over tax in 2012 when he sought Belgian citizenship. However, in April 2013, he withdrew his application as “a gesture of my attachment to France and my faith in its future”, according to Bloomberg.

  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todayEnglish
    17·
    4 hours ago

    I dunno, man, does that sound like a threat to anybody else? Bro’s talking about tanking France if him and his lil’ buddies have to build roads and fund hospitals. :( :( :(

    • Ohmmy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      11·
      4 hours ago

      It’s worse, it’s like asking the parasite about it having to somewhat share what it has stolen from the host.

  • Gates9@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    14·
    3 hours ago

    Not taxing the wealthy is deadlier

    And where they gonna go? Sure, a bunch might fuck off to Costa Rica or some other accommodative place, but those countries only have so much capacity to support the wealthy without the locals eventually demanding their cut. These people act like they’re gonna go to some tax free utopia out there beyond the ice caps like John Galt.

    Here in the United States, you think assholes like Lutnick are gonna leave New York?

    Please.

    Fuck ‘em. Take the money.

    • Ileftreddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 hours ago

      It’s like so dumb the argument “they’ll leave” like bitch to WHERE? They still gonna be on earth for the foreseeable future, just go get them

      • Gates9@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        1 hour ago

        The point is it takes a particular kind of very wealthy sociopath to hate their country for taxing them so much that they’ll leave, and you probably don’t want those people around anyway.

  • Snapz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    5 hours ago

    Plenty of his money comes from France. He won’t leave, if he does, others want that exploitable population he’d leave behind.

    Fuck your hollow threats