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    I legislatori francesi rifiutano la tassa sulla ricchezza per gli ultra-ricchi

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    2. AmazingSibylle on

      I wonder what immense wealth accumulation to the top 0.1% leads to, if only we had a country to show the possible consequences. I guess we’ll never know… /s

    4. Turbulent_Pin7635 on

      +10% in taxes applied to the poor and pensionists…

    5. Past_Key_1054 on

      Good thing too. The radio stations, newspapers, magazines, tv channels and social media sites owned by billionaires assured me it would have ended badly.

    6. dgkimpton on

      This is what happens when you let the rich get a stranglehold on power. No one needs a private wealth over 100mm so they should be insanely greatful the left is only proposing a 2% tax and not a 100% tax. 

    8. Union_Biker on

      Those politicians who voted for the rich need to be thrown out and replaced with representatives of the people.

    9. Negative-Date-9518 on

      People act like 1/2% on anything over 10m in assets is huge, it’s absolutely nothing to those that hit that tax 😂 but 100m? laughable to reject

    10. Wondering_Electron on

      If the French can’t make this happen, what chance do we in the UK have?

    12. CustomerBusiness3919 on

      Will the French do their think with the heads again?

    14. deceased_parrot on

      Shouldn’t there be like a moratorium on r/europe against this topic already? There are like 2 threads every damn week about it…

    15. zbynekstava on

      French goverment doesn’t have income problem, it has spending problem. More then half of French GDP is government spending. That’s mental.

    17. asfsdgwe35r3asfdas23 on

      I am going to get downvoted to oblivion, but if you read the proposal, it was bad. Taxing unrealized gains is not a good idea. Take mistral as an example, under this law, the founders would have needed to pay 2% of the value of the company each year to the government. The issue is that they don’t have that money. They are rich “virtually” because they hold stock of a company that is valued a few billion dollars, but they cannot sell that stock. So the law say, that since they cannot sell yet, they can avoid paying, but they accumulate debt that they need to pay later. So at some point, they would be forced to sell the company to US investors to pay the debt to the French government. But if things don’t go right, and mistral looses value or even goes bankrupt, good luck paying your multi million dollar debt to the government.

      This would have been a mechanism that would force French companies the be sold to other countries to pay the tax. And of course, nobody on their right mind would ever consider starting a company in France.

      The ultra-rich needs to pay taxes, but this proposal was garbage, find a better way to do it.

    18. DerWanderer_ on

      The bill was poorly designed and if adopted would have resulted in a net loss to the French treasury due to capital flight. The solution is to redesign the law so that it is technically sound and make it an EU directive so that capital flight would be much harder.

    19. Moist-Ninja-6338 on

      Good decision. Otherwise it leads to capital flight and less revenue for the government and social programs. You can only take so much juice out of a lime

    21. Professional-Air2123 on

      Wolves voted amongst themselves about eating the sheep and came to an agreement that the sheep need to be eaten. More news at 11.

    22. nonlethaldosage on

      A wealth tax would have 0 effect the French government has plenty of money they just use it poorly a wealth tax is not going suddenly make them spend money any wiser 

    25. supranes on

      We all should just agree on stop working altogether… why do we even make an effort if its not going to lead to anything good…

    26. Vicious00 on

      I know this is bad and the ultra rich should definitely be taxed more but some of you are forgetting that these ultra rich people don’t even live in France. They have residences in Monaco and other countries with tax breaks so it doesn’t matter because they won’t pay tax in France anyway.

    27. Gallium_71 on

      While this sucks, what I think a lot of people fail to realise is that the first countries to actually implement wealth taxes are going to get their teeth kicked in by the markets. It is a classic first through the door problem – you want to be the 30th country implementing a wealth tax, not the 5th.

    28. Gentleman_Nosferatu on

      Jesus Christ. Humanity doesn’t stand a chance.

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