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Billionaires Hate This One Weird Trick: Taxing Them
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this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2024
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It simply doesn't work, governments that have been co-opted by the bourgeoisie talking about taxing the bourgeoisie, joke! Another detail is that if they try to tax them they will flee to tax havens or create them
it works if its actually tried. You have to make it that having anything to do economically with a country results in tax. If they don't then that is fine as their money pool is now completely out of your system.
Taxing does work, but you have to do it across the board globally and don't allow countries to offer evasion.
The Netherlands is already thinking about how to create new tax exemptions to avoid having to obey the 15% minimum corporate tax globally. Our neoliberal government is always scheming like that 🤬 They undermine corporate taxes in other EU countries by giving the multinationals a cheap cop-out.
Right now they are planning to cash the 15% but to give money back the following year (called tax credits). I mean this law was finally there for a reason and now they find new loopholes.
Actually, fleeing to tax havens tends to be less of an issue for some nations. For instance studies and polling have found that the US would have to raise the top income tax bracket to something around 90% before you would loose more in people renouncing their citizenship than the government gained in the increase.
Corporate tax rate on the other hand is a whole lot more competitive, especially in places like the EU where import restrictions and terrifs are low or non existent.