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A major problem with letting billionaires decide how your country is run is tha… |
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@pluralistic That's clearly true going forward, but I think billionaires ar… |
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Billionaires have farcical, almost unimaginable resources. These let them take … |
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After generations of increasingly oligarch-friendly policies and billionaire en… |
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Writing for *Jacobin*, Alex Hemingway sets out a plan for imposing a wealth-tax… |
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After all, under capitalism, wealth always grows faster than the economy at lar… |
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Ideally, we would counter the trend of wealth piling up into dynastic fortunes … |
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We had a system like that, from the end of WWII (when the rich were poorer than… |
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So here we are, trapped in the new oligarchy. It's too late to rely on inco… |
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In Canada, the 1% owns 29% of the country's wealth. The 87 richest families… |
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Can we make a wealth tax work? Here's Hemingway's program for making it… |
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* Use third-party assessments of asset values. Don't take billionaires'… |
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* Use lifestyle audits: anyone caught engaging in tax-evasion will face severe … |
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Hemingway points out that a wealth tax is different from an income tax - income… |
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Hemingway points to the OECD's Common Reporting Standard, through which mor… |
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It's an article of faith that the rich will move offshore at the first hint… |
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The modern prophet of oligarchy and its origins is the French economist Thomas … |
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The proposal passed the National Assembly, only to die in the Senate, an instit… |
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For Piketty, this didn't go far enough: he wants a pro-rated tax based on t… |
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He points out that decarbonization is going to require large sacrifices from al… |
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I'm at the end of my 24-city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*… |
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@pluralistic People addicted to money think this way. They do not care that th… |
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@pluralistic "Some of y'all forget the reason we have food safety regu… |
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@pluralistic I am in a state of high dudgeon this morning, because the hat tric… |
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @pluralistic I have been waiting for a Trump era espionage… |
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@pluralistic You have to admit that’s a pretty good hat trick. It is a suprem… |
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@pluralisticThat's some modest, thought out proposals.…that die in a [Fre… |
