• Gates9@sh.itjust.works
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    7 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.world
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      6 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

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        these people will still live in high tax countries, while trying to not pay taxes, they wouldnt live in places that have low taxes, because those are usually shitty places to live, or its controlled by a authotarian government.

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        We don’t even need to to that! If they move to another country, let them get taxed there! If they still have business in this country, we will still get some tax revenue from them!

        If they really move everything to some tax-free place like Somalia, fucking who gives a shit? Let them find out how well that will go for them.

      • Gates9@sh.itjust.works
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        5 hours 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.