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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

    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?

    13. 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.

    14. No_Diver3540 on

      So when do we start to „eat the rich“. If the peaceful solution is not possible? /s

    16. 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.

    17. RDOmega on

      But that’s exactly what’s wrong in the world. 

      Capital flight is a myth.

      End conservatism.

    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. 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.

    23. Von_Wallenstein on

      Do the french realize their actions are the nr. 1 threat to the EU economy?

    24. XenophonSoulis on

      Now that’s the way to behave when you are on the Greece 2008 VIP track to go bankrupt after organising the Olympics.

    25. mommel1 on

      We do in Denmark
      the richer you are the higher the tax is
      ( the stronger you are, the more you have to carry )
      It’s very simple and fair 👍

    26. Grand_Taste_8737 on

      Make sense given that the capital won’t be there to be taxed if tax rates get too high.

    31. ZliaYgloshlaif on

      I swear, looking at this thread, redditors have no idea how money works, where does it come from and etc. Next thing I will see here is them blaming governments why they don’t print money and give them away to people – everyone would be happy then.

    34. Honourablefool on

      I don’t know how well this bill was designed. But I think it’s obvious that a wealth tax needs to be introduced EU wide and that this will come about only when the big memberstates start doing it and exert influence on smaller states to stop the race to the bottom. If not, the already shrinking middle class will get taxed into oblivion.

      Piketty and zucman are correct. The longer we postpone a wealth tax, the more the rich will accumulate wealth at the expense of the rest. It needs to stop or we will eventually face a fascist or communist take over. At the moment the fascist takeover seems the most likely.

    36. mekolayn on

      So, the French don’t want to increase pension age, but also don’t want taxes?

    37. thechava1941 on

      shocked pikachu face

      honestly how do people still expect the ultra wealthy to tax themselves when theyre the ones funding these politicians campaigns

    38. estrellaente on

      It seems that we already know why things happen in France, they are not very different from the rest of the world…

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