I find this utterly baffling. You're a non-dom and you're complaining that removing that status will mean you have to pay so much tax that you'll leave. Right, well...
From what I've seen, the evidence that the super-rich actually do leave when taxes go up isn't there. So you might leave, but most of your fellows will pay more.
If you aren't paying your tax at the moment, then your argument that you have value to the country is essentially trickle-down economics. You have money, therefore you will spend it or give it to others. Trickle down has been shown to be bullshit.
So. You will leave and take your very small contribution with you. Fine. Most of your friends won't, they will compensate for the loss of your (to you) pittance. If you don't want to pay your share like everyone else, then you are not a loss to this country when you leave. Piss off and don't let the door hit you on the way out.
Jared #Kushner Has Big Plans for Delta of Europe’s Last Wild River - https://e360.yale.edu/features/jared-kushner-albania-vjose-vjosa-river-hotel " #Albania’s Vjosë River is known as Europe’s last wild river, and its pristine delta is a haven for migratory birds. As plans for luxury developments there — spearheaded by Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner — move ahead, conservationists are sounding the alarm." appalling, destructive greed
@glynmoody It stinks very much of corruption in the Albanian government.
At least this lets hope: " #PPNEA and #EuroNatur are among several conservation groups taking the government to court over the issue."
And as Albania wants to become a member of the EU, pressure by EU-states and @EU_Commission could possibly help, too.
"The Republican Party, eyeing control of the Senate next year, is trying to mimic [Trump's] success with a cohort of candidates who in the past might have been attacked as a bunch of rich men but this year will be sold as successful outsiders in the Trump mold."
Y'know, there's an easy way we can fight back against the enshittification of everything, both online and off. I never realized it, but i've been fighting back all my life.
Never click an ad and consciously avoid spending any money on a company that successfully managed to fling its advertizing feces in your face.
If ads didn't work, the entire capitalist structure of the internet would collapse. Do your part. Make them not work on you.
Yes, our entire world is directed toward promoting #consumption and #profit, with the aim of obtaining, maximising, and retaining #PersonalWealth (mostly for #Billionaires and the #SuperRich). It's that that is causing all of our problems, I think?
As Hamilton Nolan notes, in 2015, Mark Zuckerberg wrote a treacly public letter to his daughter, announcing that he'd be giving away his enormous wealth to promote equality.
But in the real world, what is Zuckerberg actually doing? He's spent almost a decade buying land on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, and is building a survival shelter for himself and his family there.
He's constructing a 1,400-acre compound of mansions, treehouses, and tunnels, a $270m project whose crown jewel is a 5,000-sq-ft underground shelter with “its own energy and food supplies” and “what appears to be a blast-resistant door.”
"Odd, is it not, that a man whose primary concern is global equality would need a subterranean apocalypse shelter designed to seal him off from all of the (equal) people outside who would be, presumably, burning or starving or being eaten by the zombies?"
Perhaps "equality" means something different to the Zuckerbergs and Dorseys and Thiels and Musks of the world than it does to us ordinary non-tech-bro folks?
Jonathan Weller reminds us of why Gaetz and his fellow jackals do what they do. They want to depict themselves as noble freedom fighters, but they're fighting to put more money into the hands of their super-rich donors and to take vital support away from the needy at the bottom of society.
As Roger Sollenberger reports, though Gaetz pretends to be sustained by small donors, recent video shows what he's really doing behind the scenes, as he meets select groups of big right-wing donors to court their financial support.
@andrew@law
Oh, let's make it 99% - there's more chance of them paying.
In the UK, I think our top #tax bracket went to 94 or 96 per cent and in India, if you add in the annual wealth tax, the annual tax on the super wealthy was over 100%.
Needless to say, the chances of actually getting any money out of the #superrich is inversely proportional to the rate.
To avoid rising taxes, Norway's super-rich flee to Switzerland.
Since autumn 2022, several dozen Norwegian billionaires have moved to Switzerland to escape tax increases. These departures have sparked controversy in the kingdom, which has been run by a center-left government since October 2021.
"Rising Sun, David Geffen’s 454ft, 82 room megaship spews an estimated 16,320 tons of #carbon dioxide equivalent gases into the atmosphere annually, 800x wht average American generates in a yr.