One of the major points of our party for the upcoming election is to introduce a tax on people with a net worth of over 5 million euro. The tax has been calculated by independent checkers and it is estimated that it will rake in 8 to 10 billion euro annually.

Everyone and their mother is now saying that a tax like that would be a disaster as every rich people ‘will just flee the country’. Which they will not, as has been shown by previous countries like France introducing a similar tax FOR DECADES with less than 0.2% of the rich people leaving.

But what saddens me the most is that so many people just accept this threat as normal. Like, what does it say about our system if rich people hoarding all the wealth without contributing to society can throw a fit and leave? Is that not a sick system to live in? You off all people are the one creating the wealth for these people. Be mad, please. Be outraged that they dare to do something like that, while our government is planning to cut the budgets of healthcare, education, public transport and whatnot. For fuck’s sake have some dignity.

  • Dagwood222
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    5 months ago

    When people look at Nixon they tend to focus on the war crimes and Watergate, and to ignore how he destroyed the American middle class.

    The Vietnam was was an artificial boost to the US economy. Dick was dropping a Hiroshima a day on South East Asia and that menat plenty of good Union jobs at plants running 24/7 to produce all the steel. Meanwhile, because the US couldn’t provide enough steel for export, Japan and Germany started building modern steel mills that used much less power.

    Now comes the Arab Oil boycott. Suddenly the price of energy triples and US manufacturers are stuck with old, high energy plants that can’t keep up. Americans start buying small Japanese and German cars. A lot of small manufacturers have to move overseas to compete. All those beautiful lofts you see in places like New York’s Soho district were originally small factories making things like purses, wallets, and gloves. The original owners moved out and artsy types movied in.

    With the job base gone, cities like Akron, Detroit, and others began to implode.