Comment on Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth

But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• brax@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t get why the countries don’t qll join forces to push wealth taxes at the same time… Suddenly the loop holes close and either the countries get huge funding to fix their economies, or the wage thieves take their money back and pay it all back to the workers they stole it from.

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  • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There was a push for an international minimum tax rate from some guy. But that guy was old and so people decided to replace that old guy with an old guy that’s a billionaire, but because he’s crazy he doesn’t seem as old I guess. But anyway, it’s highly doubtful something like that will happen any time soon.

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  • rigatti@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Because the countries are controlled by the ultrarich.

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    • brax@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      But they could detach and get their money back so easily…

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