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tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 1 year agoGroan. Western countries have at times used taxes on wealth to enable massive infrastructure development. Straight after WW1 and WW2 almost all Western countries introduced “profit” taxes of 80-90% and increased taxes on the wealthy. It was the only way the UK, for instance, could rebuild after the war and why we have an NHS and used to have a great welfare state.
I don’t actually believe we should tax the excessively wealthy. I think we should take what they’ve stolen over the centuries back into common democratic ownership.
Aux@lemmy.world 1 year ago
UK didn’t have wealth taxes post war. Because wealth taxes don’t work. Off you go back to school.