opponents of the minimum wealth tax totally lack historical perspective ... It is unrealistic to imagine that the working class and the middle class will calmly accept additional taxes or cuts to public spending. So long as the wealthiest individuals pay taxes that are trivial relative to their net worth, no one will accept the slightest sacrifice. Just as in the decades that came before 1789
If one builds a fortune while relying on the country’s infrastructure, education, and health systems, there is no reason that one should so readily escape the collective obligations that fund these systems
By opposing the 2% minimum wealth tax on billionaires, after the measure was adopted by France's Assemblée nationale (lower house of Parliament), the upper house, the Sénat, has shown …
Wealth is collective: It depends on the involvement of thousands of employees, not a handful of individual geniuses
According to Challenges magazine, which is hardly a bastion of left-wing thought, France’s 500 highest fortunes rose from €200 billion to €1.2 trillion between 2010 and 2025 – a 500% increase. With a 2% annual wealth tax, it would take a century to make them go back to their 2010 level. That’s assuming they receive no income in the meantime, which would make little sense, given that these fortunes have grown by 7% to 8% per year over the past 15 years
Bloc National (1919-1924) – one of the most right-wing legislatures in the French Republic’s history – that would raise the tax rate to 60% in 1920, and then to 75% in 1923
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正如之前说过的，德和道息息相关。道是变化的规律，德便是人类活了很长时间、经历了许多历史教训以后才发展出来的、合…
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justice requires wealthy countries to compensate the poor for the damage that climate change causes them
has been weakened both by global rules that favour profit shifting and by domestic policies shaped by those who benefit most from the status quo
Climate finance is often framed as a search for new money. Our analysis and the climate finance slider released with this report, shows that the real issue is not scarcity but capture. Extreme wealth and undertaxed multinational profits are plentiful; what is missing is countries’ ability and willingness to tax them. This ability, tax sovereignty, […]
'Scarcity to address the climate crisis comes not from a genuine lack of resources but from elite capture and a lack of tax sovereignty on the part of countries' ~ Franziska Mager
'Scarcity to address the climate crisis comes not from a genuine lack of resources but from elite capture and a lack of tax sovereignty on the part of countries' ~ Franziska Mager #SB62 #ClimateFinance #BonnClimateConference
“double damage” inflicted by the wealthiest corporations and individuals who disproportionately contribute to climate breakdown through their outsized carbon emissions and who rob governments of the funding needed to address the fallout from climate breakdown by abusing tax
“Double damage” inflicted by wealthiest corporations and individuals highlights twin crises of climate breakdown and inequality The amount of tax lost every year to multinational corporations and wealthy individuals using tax havens is on par with the amount of money needed each year to cover the estimated cost of climate-induced loss and damage. In a […]
amount of tax lost every year to multinational corporations and wealthy individuals using tax havens is on par with the amount of money needed each year to cover the estimated cost of climate-induced loss and damage
領導人堅定信念貫徹始終與重視傳承，團隊的經營與群策群力才能走得長久
社經地位不高、人民剽悍，曾經是……一個化外之地
為什麼台灣政府相關單位仍故步自封？……政府在口頭上鼓勵山村發展微型經濟之餘，是否也能在法規上實際給予支持…協調，修訂出跟得上民間[小型創新企業]腳步的合理政策……？
地方創生最重要的在『人』，這個『人』代表的也是政府官員的思維
社區解說員很多原本可能生活沒有目標，但在接受訓練後整個人都變得有自信
臺灣最缺願意做事的人，談到做事，大家都會說好，「好、好、好！」「你去做就好！」但多年的社區經驗讓他發現，只要參與者覺得透過這樣的工作自己會有所成長，大多數的人還是會繼續再來參與。
勇氣是當你為了比你更高一層的存續而犧牲你自己的福祉
原文譯自Nassim Nicholas Taleb文章: The Logic of Risk Taking
我們的本性也許慣於對尾部風險”說不”。因為不用冒尾部風險就能賺錢的方法不計其數。不用複雜科技 — 這會導致脆弱和具未知尾部風險機率 — 就能解決問題(譬如說餵飽世界)的方法也不計其數。
Morris Pearl, Chair of the Patriotic Millionaires and former Managing Director at BlackRock, said: “In recent decades, wealth inequality has skyrocketed around the world. The growing gap between rich and poor has destabilised the global economy, exacerbated the rise of extremist politics, and frayed the very fabric of our social order. As an ultra-wealthy person, representing an organisation of like-minded wealthy people, I am asking the G20 to tax us
In an open letter to the G20, close to 300 millionaires, economists, and political representatives from almost all G20 countries call for a new international agreement on wealth taxes to “stop extreme wealth from corroding our collective future”.
the vested interests in maintaining the current system, including billionaires, the fossil fuel sector, big pharma, defense, and industrial agriculture will continue to fight to prevent the transformative changes needed. To overcome our societal addiction to the current system will require a broad consensus and movement of movements around the shared goal of sustainable wellbeing for humans and the rest of nature
13 August 2023 -
G20 Leaders must tax extreme wealth
