Spain and Brazil push global action to tax the super-rich and curb inequality
Spain and Brazil push global action to tax the super-rich and curb inequality
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Spain and Brazil push global action to tax the super-rich and curb inequality
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Let's stop calling them super. "The grotesquely wealthy" is more accurate.
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This is unquestionably a good thing. But it's also kind of weird that it's Brasil of all places in on this, since the inequality there between the super wealthy and the folks living in the favelas is just an accepted part of life...kind of like the caste system in India.
I'm not saying that that's a good thing. I'm just saying that I wouldn't imagine the Brasilian authorities would actually give a shit considering the state of their own inequality and how it's just kind of taken as a "reality of life" down there.
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From the statistics I’ve seen, things are getting better in Brazil… slowly but improving
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That's good to hear. It's been many years since I've stayed in touch with either my extended family or my friends who live down there. (Most of my family moved from Portugal to Canada, but a couple of distant cousins moved instead to Brasil...around Niteroi if I remember correctly)
I last spoke with them in the early 2000s, and back then it was a pretty crazy contrast between the rich and the poor. Almost no true middle class. You either were wealthy enough to have servants, or you WERE the servant and went home to your favela that (if you were lucky) had electricity.
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This photo is about wealth inequality too.
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Yes, absolutely unequivocally YES
Won't happen though, not for a second
The world will burn up and the rich will be the last to die, but at least at last, they will burn too.
Yeah, I'm cynical as hell but what's left these days? I grew up on a steady diet of one hero after another chosing to do the right thing and sacrifice themselves if they had to, because they were the one who could make the difference. So in the real world we have politicians and rich assholes, and they'd all sacrifice their own children before themselves. Nobody will stand up anymore so yeah, were fucked.
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That looks similar to mine. Maybe a little larger, though.
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Meanwhile in Italy they tax foreign bank accounts with more than a 5K balance. That is not rich. And foreign investments at 0.02%. It is shocking seeing my principle taxed annually. By a country with five different police and an incredible amount of tax waste associated with corruption. Very frustrating and it seems everyone is complaining about the number of Italians not paying taxes. There’s a reason.
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The rich should be taxed for sure. Good for Spain and Brazil.