• dogslayeggs@lemmy.world
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    28 天前

    What’s the downside? If they move away, you haven’t lost anything because they weren’t paying taxes anyway. If they stay, you have just gained tax revenue. And it isn’t like you are going to lose a lot of sales tax money or real estate tax money, since they are not going to stop visiting Paris and buying luxury goods and are not going to sell their properties (that’s why they are so wealthy in the first place).

    Also, if they move away then you have fewer billionaires fucking up politics.

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      27 天前

      Capitalist threats of leaving are hilarious. Oh no the non-contributors will leave. The workers are the economy. If capital flight becomes a problem that’s only a problem within a larger capitalist framework.

      Let them all leave, then we can own our own labour output.

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      27 天前

      But billionaires are the only source of jobs and if nobody is there to buy yachts how will the trickle-down economics work?