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Ezior

(505 posts)
2. Threat to democracy and our future
Mon Mar 20, 2017, 12:18 PM
Mar 2017

These guys are a huge threat.

But what can be done about it?

I'm in favour of heavy progressive income taxes (> 90% for very high income) and wealth taxes. It allows government to reduce taxes on less affluent families (or invest / spend on useful things), but also prevents people from getting TOO DAMN RICH. Extremely rich families can be incredibly dangerous, like the Mercers.

It's important that everyone can be more wealthy by working harder / being more skilled etc, just to have an incentive, but there should be limits.

Of course, if some radical left-wing party in my country talks about these things, the Merkel party will quickly denounce it and explain that rich, skilled people will simply move to the US where they pay lower taxes. And I guess the Merkel party is right about it. Those tax plans should be enacted all over the world at the same time, which is impossible of course…

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