Throw them in the garbage
2026-06-26 14:30 UTC
Replies (7)
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@TheKaul@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-06-26 20:10
If the US actually taxed someone like Bezos a fair amount to narrow the wealth gap, Bezos would just go to another country that will gladly accept his enormous amounts of money and help him move his assets & businesses over. The US would then lose a very large chunk of money, and as we all know, the US wants to be “The BEST country in the world”, so that’s not something they’d willingly let happen. Maybe it’s not that simple, but I think that’s the general reason we haven’t seen the ultra-rich tax increases we all want. The politicians like money, the rich like political power, and the US wants to be the biggest and bestest. Just like a peanut butter jelly sandwich, you can’t seperate the peanut butter & the jelly once they’re put together.
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@HieroProtagonist@lemmy.ml 2026-06-27 04:17
This is the funny thing: Realistically they won’t leave, they would simply leverage their wealth to support opposing parties, prop up their own political marionettes, invest their money in campaigns to ruin the credibility of their adversaries or simply letting them disappear as a measure of last resort.
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@Abyssian@lemmy.world 2026-06-28 02:40
Gonna need much bigger cans, a whole lot of bags, and a dull, rusty bone saw.
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@Zephorah@discuss.online 2026-06-26 14:54
They’re not doing anything for me. Let them leave.
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@UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 2026-06-26 16:38
Even if it were true who cares? If they aren't actually paying taxes then what is the point in having them?
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@takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-06-26 14:55
They already trying to change California's Constitution to prevent taxing their wealth: https://ballotpedia.org/California_Prohibit_Taxes_on_Retirement_Holdings_and_Personal_Savings_Amendment_(2026)
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@pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2026-06-26 15:21
[WA’s rich are leaving? Another tax on wealth smashes records by tripling the amount coming in from last year](https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/was-rich-are-leaving-another-tax-on-wealth-smashes-records/) > “This morning we got the updated numbers for fiscal year 2026 for capital gains … it came in at $1.5 billion,” economist Dave Reich told state lawmakers earlier this month. “So a very significant increase, quite a bit above our forecast from what we had before.” > > This is understating things by a fair bit. Last year this tax raised $584 million. So the revenue, which is a preliminary figure pending delayed returns, appears to have nearly tripled in one year. It quadrupled from the year before that. > > This is not what the critics of tax-the-rich schemes said should happen. They predicted tax proceeds would deteriorate as rich people moved away or structured their finances to avoid paying it.