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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I just want world wide wealth caps. 10 million is the max that any person canboen or control. Any additional income after that goes 100% straight to taxes.

This simple rule has wide spread implications from ending poverty to likely ending wars, removing power from narcissist politicians, and souch more

[–] WasabiWabbit@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Yes. but corruption always exists. Caps just push that wealth underground. There are no simple answers like that.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

On it's own that won't end poverty, but coupled with something like a basic income it could. It would definitely end all the extreme wealth stupidity, and if it was retroactive nobody could really flee with their wealth, like they might manage to with a lesser wealth tax.

You might want to go up to 15, though. There's bound to be some sympathetic retiree couple with a house in inner Vancouver.

[–] ProudCanadianCitizen@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In the 1970's, $1 million and you were rich.Today, it's $10 million and even that is less than a lottery win. The limit would have to be $100 million.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The multimillionaires would end inflation very quickly.

[–] ProudCanadianCitizen@lemmy.ca 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

The hell they would. Inflation is what makes them multimillionaires. Once you become that rich, inflation does not affect you. 89%of your income gores to investments, things you WANT to increase in price.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Inflation would steadily decrease their real wealth cap. Wealth includes investments.

[–] ProudCanadianCitizen@lemmy.ca 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Wrong.Inflation increases the value of their investments. The stock market relies completely on inflation to increase profits. Every inflationary increase directly results in increase profits. That is the purpose of inflation.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Right, but I'm talking about the hypothetical in which their wealth is capped at a fixed number of dollars. They'd reach the cap and then raise the ladder up after them.

[–] definitemaybe@lemmy.ca -3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

A 100% income tax means there's no incentive to remove profits from a business beyond that income, since you can't spend any of it, so it will just encourage increased accounting trickery to justify "business expenses" for things like purchasing private islands, sports cars, and luxury vacations.

80% is high enough; for every $10 million they withdraw for personal spending, they keep 2, and the other $8 million would go to pay for the services requested to run the rest of the country that enables them to produce their wealth. (Including all their employees and customers.)

Then we still benefit from the efficiencies inherent in the profit motive while having the ultra wealthy pay their fair share.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

That was a wealth tax, not a tax on income. So, nobody would be worth more than 10 million, and earning 10 million is almost out of the question. That means you can't own a huge business by yourself, to start with.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Get a high salary, "lose it" on crypto, retire in Belize.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 19 hours ago

Well, the "get a high salary" part is definitely doing most of the hard work.

That being said, yes, there'd still be a way, if you're patient, have the income and don't care about legality. There'd be a risk of getting caught, which always scales with the amount you've hidden. But, maybe you're smarter than the next white-collar criminal.

If the point is to flatten out the class system, this policy would do it, though.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I might argue that if any single individual is in the position to collect $10M+/year, the economic system is already dysfunctional. That individual is operating as a gatekeeper rather than a value center and the position they occupy needs to be broken up and reorganized.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I could imagine a top surgeon or pro athlete legitimately earning that much from their own labor alone.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

a top surgeon

Tops are a dime a dozen. Bottom surgery is where the big money is at.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

a top surgeon or pro athlete

Entertainers and life savers are very different categories of value to society.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

They also dress differently