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minus-squareZorque@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24arrow-down1·2 days agoIts certainly simpler, though hardly a solution. There’s always more billionaires unless you change the system that created them.
minus-squaredustycups@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down1·edit-22 days agoTax. Its not complicated. It might take a few goes to get it just right but what we have now is pathetic.
minus-squareangrystego@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 days agoI agree, but also…There are famously ways to avoid taxes. You need a backup plan when taxation doesn’t work. And remember, once someone becomes trully wealthy, they’re above the law.
minus-squarea_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day agoI don’t think those ways mattered as much back when the top marginal rate was approaching 90%.
minus-squareSaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·2 days agoWe could just keep hanging them.
minus-squareBaroqueBobby@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·2 days agoTax them, give them a choice, and if they choose…poorly, then hang them. I bet you if ceos start erm, falling down due to high speed objects that may affect brain functions , things get changed fast
minus-squaretheolodis@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days agoPretty sure that you’d have less and less once you start hanging them, but of course, I am not an expert (yet). I mean would you want to become a billionaire if you knew you’d end up hanging?
minus-squareSharkticon@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·2 days agoI’m definitely for a change of the system too, but in the meantime there always more rope too.
minus-squareNachBarcelona@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·2 days agoWhich solved for example all problems in all countries who ever went into a killing frenzy, see the monument to equality that is France. You belong into (at least) therapy.
Its certainly simpler, though hardly a solution. There’s always more billionaires unless you change the system that created them.
Tax.
Its not complicated. It might take a few goes to get it just right but what we have now is pathetic.
I agree, but also…There are famously ways to avoid taxes. You need a backup plan when taxation doesn’t work. And remember, once someone becomes trully wealthy, they’re above the law.
I don’t think those ways mattered as much back when the top marginal rate was approaching 90%.
We could just keep hanging them.
Tax them, give them a choice, and if they choose…poorly, then hang them.
I bet you if ceos start erm, falling down due to high speed objects that may affect brain functions , things get changed fast
Pretty sure that you’d have less and less once you start hanging them, but of course, I am not an expert (yet).
I mean would you want to become a billionaire if you knew you’d end up hanging?
I’m definitely for a change of the system too, but in the meantime there always more rope too.
Which solved for example all problems in all countries who ever went into a killing frenzy, see the monument to equality that is France.
You belong into (at least) therapy.