sanitation@lemmy.today to politics @lemmy.world · 3 days agoThe California billionaire tax is headed to the ballot.The ultrawealthy are bracing for what comes next.www.businessinsider.comexternal-linkmessage-square26linkfedilinkarrow-up120arrow-down10
arrow-up120arrow-down1external-linkThe California billionaire tax is headed to the ballot.The ultrawealthy are bracing for what comes next.www.businessinsider.comsanitation@lemmy.today to politics @lemmy.world · 3 days agomessage-square26linkfedilink
minus-squarebillwashere@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoMake it 1% and make it yearly.
minus-squareWizardofFrobozz@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·3 days agoMake it 10, make it yearly, and make examples of a couple of them in advance.
minus-squareoopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 day agoOr just make it 99.9999 once every time there’s a new name on the list of eligible payers. Nobody deserves that many digits in their name. Literally zero people have ever deserved that. They should have never had it, and that should be a worldwide rule.
minus-squarephutatorius@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 hours ago Literally zero people have ever deserved that. The fact that individuals can accumulate that kind of wealth is a flaw in the system.
Make it 1% and make it yearly.
Make it 10, make it yearly, and make examples of a couple of them in advance.
Or just make it 99.9999 once every time there’s a new name on the list of eligible payers.
Nobody deserves that many digits in their name. Literally zero people have ever deserved that.
They should have never had it, and that should be a worldwide rule.
The fact that individuals can accumulate that kind of wealth is a flaw in the system.