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America’s wealthiest people are also some of the world’s biggest polluters – not only because of their massive homes and private jets, but because of the fossil fuels generated by the companies they invest their money in.

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[-] Veraxus@kbin.social 46 points 10 months ago

We need a 95% tax bracket for anyone that makes more than a few million/year.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.ml 15 points 10 months ago

And a wealth tax for people having more value than like 10 millions (or less actually).

[-] gamer@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

A few million/year is a reasonable amount of money for a (highly) successful person to make. A wealth tax for people making over a billion or just $100M per year is enough to fix a lot of the problems in this country without destroying the "American dream"

[-] Veraxus@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The way I see it, if you make enough money to buy a nice, moderate house in California or Hawaii once per year, you are already making too much money. My cutoff would probably be closer to $2-3M... though I'd be willing to go higher if paired with an annual "wealth tax"... say, if you have a value of over - for example - $20M (incl. stocks and any other non-liquid assets) you must pay 20% of any excess value in taxes annually. That would be on top of the 95% multimillionaire income tax.

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