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World’s billionaires should pay minimum 2% wealth tax, say G20 ministers
(www.theguardian.com)
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2% what the…. My income above 50k is taxed 48% i think. Wtf 2%
Edit: yes i know the difference, but still…
Wealth tax is different from income tax. Once you've received your income it becomes wealth, and it is not taxed unless you use it. Wealth tax would mean that your money in the bank is taxed periodically.
Which is clearly necessary, and companies know it.
Open any MMO built and organized around a player economy (designed by a for-profit corporation) and you will see they know that individual wealth can upset the balance of the game.
They set maximum currency values, or they charge you periodic taxes for existing in the server.
When people are being honest about wealth, we all know the concentration of wealth in the extreme fucks up the system for everybody.
And video game systems do not even have a scarcity problem like the real world.
That’s your income not your net worth, 2% of your net worth would be taking the value of all your cash + stocks/investments/businesses + assets like cars/homes/land/collectibles/jewelry/etc and taxing 2% of that value.
Your income shouldn’t be your net worth unless you’re honestly spending every dime of every check
A lot of us are poor enough where we sorta have to just to survive.
Right? Who can afford to own things?
I’m in that club. Woohoooo!
So what about people paying more in taxes than their net worth is?
Not super relevant to the convo, everyone pays taxes based on income, the proposal is to make rich people ALSO pay on net worth, not all people. For most people the effort of doing a net worth assessment isn’t worth the tax income
Yeah I know, IMO hoarding wealth is just bad for the system we agree on (using paper slips and numbers in computers to exchange goods and services). It just gives power to the few, without the possibility to overturn them as we might in an election.
ah, but imagine if you have 128Billion dollars, more than the GDP of many countries