Masthash

#TaxTheRich

isaiah
11 hours ago

elon spent 20B of his own capital on twitter — which he’s essentially just lit on fire — burning his own money, destroying his own credibility, and hurting countless other people.

put another way, he could have simply given away 10 million every single day for over 10 years.

in fact he could still do that today and it would not have any noticeable impact to his lifestyle or other businesses.

#TaxTheRich

Twra Sun
18 hours ago

📣: Von 24.500 Befragten aus Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt und Thüringen fordert eine Mehrheit den Abbau klimaschädlicher Subventionen (Dienstwagen) und die Einführung einer #Reichensteuer.
#TaxTheRich

Nike Leonhard
1 day ago

@tagesschau
Lindner sollte sich lieber von Marlene Engelhorn inspirieren lassen, mit der @sarahbosetti gerade ein so reflektiertes Interview geführt hat, wie man es sich von Talkshows zur Primetime wünscht: https://www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/extra-3-bosettis-woche/65-reichtum-und-klempner-demokratie-mit-marlene-engelhorn/ndr/12958101/
Wer danach angefixt ist: Unbedingt auch noch das Interview im Denkangebot Podcast von @kattascha mitnehmen: https://www.denkangebot.org/allgemein/marlene-engelhorn-ueber-reichtum-und-steuergerechtigkeit/
Fazit: Das Geld ist da, aber #Lindner begünstigt die Falschen.
#Haushalt #Ampel #Politik #TaxTheRich #Subventionsabbau

Democracy Matters :verified:
1 day ago

Please, Jesus! #TaxTheRich

The Supreme Court Might Actually Pass on a Chance to Protect the Rich https://newrepublic.com/article/177338/supreme-court-wealth-tax-code

Groschenromanautorin
2 days ago

@afelia

Es ist so wild, dass selbst kleine Arbeitnehmer*innen argumentieren "aber wenn wir #taxtherich usw machen, wandern die ab und Arbeitsplätze gehen verloren"🤡. Solche Argumente hör ich tatsächlich oft in meinem Umfeld und es ist echt unfassbar, wie dieses Druckmittel als Propaganda verfängt, anstatt dass die Menschen wegen dieser Ungerechtigkeit auf die Barrikaden gehen (und zB Enteignungen fordern)💥

mvario
2 days ago
Carmen Zedler
2 days ago

@florianschlund - es ist hinlänglich bewiesen, dass nur ein gesunder Sozialstaat in Krisen & Katastrophen überlebensfähig ist. Und es gibt in der Geschichte genug Beispiele für das Scheitern ganzer Kulturen ohne eine gute #sozialpolitik.
Wer erklärt es jetzt nur der neoliberalen @spdbt mit ihrem #cumex #kanzler #scholz? #letztechance #Worthülsen #politik #haushalt #armut #fdp #gratismentalität #Privilegiencheck #taxtherich #Dienstwagenprivileg

Biotecnólogo navideño 🎅🎄
2 days ago

@foncu @tunubesecamirio Aprovecho este asunto para recordar que, en situaciones así, mi respuesta suele ser la misma: hay que crear instituciones públicas a nivel estatal y europeo dedicadas al tema en cuestión (farmacia, tecnología, etc.) para evitar monopolios.

Muchas veces se piensa directamente en prohibir o regular hasta la asfixia y eso, al final, tampoco ayuda.

Hay que fomentar lo público y exprimir a lo privado si va con ínfulas. Lo que viene siendo un #TaxTheRich de toda la vida.

Lumiukko :damnified:
3 days ago

@MBrandtner Nein, die Frage stellt sich gar nicht. 530 sind gar nicht mal soviele verglichen mit der Zahl der Menschen, die durchaus Alternativen fürs Auto hätten, sie aber aus Bequemlichkeit oder Trotz nicht nutzen. Klar, (Carbon-#TaxTheRich), aber diese Frage stelle ich mir definitiv nicht.

Michael Koehn
3 days ago

Es ist ja auch eine grundsätzliche Frage des Selbstverständnis eines Landes:
Wollen wir auch die (manchmal auch mental oder charakterlich) Schwachen zurücklassen und den Starken mehr abverlangen - oder sollen die Bedürftigsten #TaxTheRich verhindern?
#Buergergeld ... ?

Arthur_P_Dent
3 days ago

Ich bin dieses reflexartige „lass uns die Armen noch ärmer machen“ so unendlich leid. Dumm, uninspiriert, gefährlich und letztlich schädigend für die lokale Wirtschaft. Seit Jahrzehnten bluten die unteren und mittleren Einkommensgruppen, damit es der merzschen „gehobenen Mittelschicht“ besser geht. Das muss aufhören. Jetzt. Es wird, nein ist, Zeit, Reiche an den Kosten der Gesellschaft, der sie ihren Reichtum verdanken, zu beteiligen.
#TaxTheRich #Merz

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/bericht-aus-berlin-esken-merz-100.html

mvario
3 days ago

Jeff Bezos Donates $120 Million to Fight Homelessness, Then Invests $500 Million to Make It Worse

https://www.commondreams.org/news/jeff-bezos-homeless

#TaxTheRich #NoBillionaires

TCatLikesReality
3 days ago

@knittingknots2
Bezos need to be taxed, heavily
#TaxTheRich. #WealthTax

P Gurgel-Segrillo
3 days ago

Britain has amongst the highest inflation in Europe with many barely having enough to keep up with rising rents, energy bills and food prices. A focus on ordinary Brits struggling to make ends meet. https://youtu.be/dllN2R1Qa9c?feature=shared #CostOfLivingCrisis #ToryBritan #EnergyPoverty #FoodPoverty #TaxTheRich

On a road trip from Bellingham, WA (i.e., pretty much the Canadian border) to Palm Springs, CA (darn near to Mexico), and according to my non-scientific survey of trucks on the highways:

Of every 100 trucks,
4 are Walmart,
6 are FedEx,
15 are miscellaneous private operators, and
75 are Amazon Prime.

Bezos' Amazon doesn't pay taxes, but his behemoth trucks sure are responsible for a shit ton of wear and tear on our public infrastructure.

#TaxTheRich #Bezos #Amazon #BoycottAmazon #USPol #USPolitics #CorporateWelfare #Infrastructure

WERNERPRISE° — Thomas Werner
4 days ago

Hello Fediverse, hello Bits&Baeume,

I’ve moved recently, time for a (re)introduction — and a heartfelt Thank You! to @ben

I am a writer, copywriter, online editor, and I generally write a lot; I design websites with plain HTML/CSS/JS or using WordPress and other CMS; occasionally I work as a speaker, podcast producer, sound designer — to mention the most important bits.

My blog: https://wernerprise.com/blog (mostly German, but I am considering making it bilingual at some point.)

Climate catastrophe is on my mind, degrowth close to my heart; capitalism needs a short leash!

Also, I still take SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 very seriously. Thus:

#SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #COVID #NoCOVID #LongCOVID #COVIDIsNotOver #WearAMask #TeamCaution #CleanAir
#NewHere #Intro #ClimateCatastrophe #Capitalism #WealthRedistribution #TaxTheRich #Democracy #AntiAI #AntiFa #StopConsumerism #WeAreThe99Percent
#HTML #CSS #JavaScript #Webdesign #WordPress

Spiggi
5 days ago

As Republicans again propose cuts to Social Security, remember this rt-wing mag suggesting poor little old ladies to go w/out, so the obscenely rich can keep their tax breaks.
#taxtherich #taxthechurches

Cab T. Hanks
5 days ago

@tagesschau

Mal wieder ganz viel heiße Luft und Lobbyarbeit unter dem Radar. Mehr ist #COP28 nicht.

The same procedure as every year...

#Klimakatastrophe
#Klimawandel
#Klimapolitik
#Lobbyismus
#taxtherich

Democracy Matters :verified:
5 days ago

It's coming! Prepare to be eaten...

Eat the rich: 7 movies like "Saltburn" that skewer the wealthy https://www.salon.com/2023/12/01/best-movies-eat-the-rich/

#EatTheRich #TaxTheRich

n8zug
5 days ago

Das Bürgergeld soll gekürzt werden.
#EatTheRich
#TaxTheRich

Twra Sun
1 week ago

Die Zahl der Milliardäre, die ihr Vermögen einer Erbschaft verdanken, nimmt einer Studie zufolge weltweit zu. Nach dem starken Anstieg der Unternehmertätigkeit in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten würden nun immer mehr Gründer älter und gäben ihr Geld an die nächste Generation weiter, heißt es in einer Studie der Schweizer Großbank UBS.
➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/weltwirtschaft/milliardaere-erbschaften-100.html
#TaxTheRich #Ungleichheit

Thea_gruen
1 week ago

@hart Ein Weg wäre imho eine weltweite Einführung einer maximalen Höhe von Boni, die sich an der Höhe des Gehaltes der untersten Lohn- / Einkommensgruppe der jeweiligen Branche orientiert (maximal das xxfache des Jahresgehaltes, jedoch höchstens xxxx). Ergänzend eine Verpflichtung zur Haftung, wenn Umwelt- /Klimaschädliche Investitionen getätigt werden.
#taxtherich
#SozialeGerechtigkeit
#CutCarbon
#Klimakatastrophe

Klima_Mahner
1 week ago

@taz
Steuern erhöhen (#Taxtherich) und fossile Subventionen abbauen - und die notwendigen Transformationen sind bezahlt.

John Carlsen
1 week ago

@VinesNFluff @Chromino @jaelisp

Note how the benefits in gains in productivity shifted away from worker pay after the most notable tax cuts for the rich, both post-JFK and especially during the Reagan years.

#TaxTheRich #economics

"The Great Prosperity (1947-79) vs The Great Regression (1980-Now)

Pay Rose With Productivity ... And Then It Didn't

Wages and overall compensation, for production and non- supervisory workers (now about 82 percent of the private sector work force), tracked steadily upward alongside gains in productivity. 

The rising value of goods and services per worker meant rising pay. But that relationship ended in the 1970s."

Chart illustrating changes from 1947 (baseline) in productivity (rising 119% from 1947 to 1979 and rising 80% from 1980 to 2009), average hourly compensation (rising 100% from 1947 to 1979 and rising 8% from 1980 to 2009), and average hourly wage (rising 72% from 1947 to 1979 and rising 7% from 1980 to 2009)

Source: Robert Reich. New York Times. 9/4/2011
Cathy Tuttle
1 week ago

Mayor #SadiqKhan who also chairs #C40Cities is being threatened, and his family and staff doxxed, as he works to implement the #London #ULEZ Ultra Low Emission Zone

"As combating #climatechange moves from setting targets to implementing them, policymaking is entering an era of messy — and contentious — interventions. To meet emissions goals, governments will have to ... convince voters the cost of making those changes is worth it."

Also, #taxtherich.
Keep going Mayor!

https://www.politico.eu/article/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-cop28-climate-change-summit-clean-air-zone-cars-emissions/

Drew Johnson
1 week ago

Guardian: 200 individuals emitted 415,518 tonnes of CO2 from private jet flights

My round trip bike commute saves an estimated 4 kg (based on 2021 EPA report). For scale, 200 of me would need to bike commute five days a week, 52 weeks a year, for 998 years.

#BikeTooter #ClimateCrisis #Cycling #TaxTheRich

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/21/the-jet-set-200-celebrities-aircraft-have-flown-for-combined-total-of-11-years-since-2022

I've been watching a lot of movies from the 30s and 40s lately in which the wealthy class seems to do a lot of horseback riding, skeet shooting, chess playing, tailored dress clothes wearing, sherry drinking, and cigarette/cigar smoking. Not a lot of work going on for those folks.

"Nobody wants to work anymore" is pure projection for the true "loafing class."

#TaxTheRich #Oligarchs #Oligarchy #Plutocracy #EatTheRich #ClassWar #UnionStrong #Solidarity

J de Brabander
2 weeks ago

#TaxTheRich Dark Brandon

Dark Brandon for the win !

"Dark Brandon never misses"
by TheLincolnProject

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jHTwQzmQ6GM

J de Brabander
2 weeks ago

Mission Statement
[but don't hold me to that]

After the devastating Dutch elections [22-11-'23] I decided to dedicate my toots back to the original goal.
I care about a lot of issues, most global some national; but I won't be 'tooting' about them all.

First and formost I WANT to 'toot' about:
* #ClimateSolutions
Because I trust that most people reading know about the dreadfull future of climate change, I want to spread the, possible, solutions to a problem rather than reiterate on the problem.
* #ClimateJustice
One of those solution might be sueing the polluters or governments on human rights, violations or #Ecoside
* #ClimateAction
Action is by all means a solution.
* #ClimateEmergency
* #Climate

As said I want to focus on the global issue. I don't want to nitpick on too much principles. Like: "What's worse: eating cows or driving diesel?" Both are devastating behaviors of intitled rich people!
On the otherhand therefore I truly respect ANY effort to make a change for the better.

Most of all... I want to add instead of preach. Bring some bits of the puzzle to the table.

I'm NOT a scientist of any kind. I'm just a disabled old white guy typing on a desk reading and searching a lot.

I tend to toot 2 - 3 times a day, but that's NOT a promise.
I tend to follow anyone who 'retoots' or 'favourites' my toots. Forget it, I'm vain.
I might be interested in: #StopCopCity #ClimateFinance #Capitalism #Energy #USpolitics #Ukraine #Europe #Bernie #XR #OceanCleanup #NextBlue #InductionCooking #TaxTheRich #Africa #FemaleSoccer #Ajax #MíTambién #BigOil #Greta #CityDesign #VanessaNakate #2030 #Wildfires #Floods #PussyRiot #IPCC #AOC and more.

If any of my 'followers' want to opt out... this is your chance, as always.

Text: graphic of a time line starting with 1979 Climate conference up to 2015 Paris Agreement while getting taller and redder.
Mx. Alex
2 weeks ago

Allez on signe et on fait tourner: une ECI pour taxer les riches et leur faire payer la transition écologique et sociale.

https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2023/000006_fr

#TaxTheRich #Europe

La bannière de l’initiative citoyenne européenne qui dit "Tax the Rich"
Greengordon
2 weeks ago

@GottaLaff

Is there such a thing as a progressive billionaire? Soros may be the exception that proves the rule that all billionaires are bastards - ABAB.

"Conservative Group Accidentally Reveals Its Secret Donors.

"Some of Them Are Liberal Orgs.”

#EatTheRich #TaxTheRich out of existence - they are a pox on humanity.

Enough! Scotland
2 weeks ago

🚨The richest 1% of the population produced as much carbon pollution in one year as the 5 billion people who make up the poorest two-thirds. Share of CO2 emissions in 2019, by income group and population.

Source:
Climate Equality: A planet for the 99%, Oxfam

#ClimateEmergency #TaxTheRich #ecosocialism #anthropocene

levampyre
2 weeks ago

@cstross Well, if the billionaires shoot themselves to Mars in their penis extensions maybe we can finally safe the functioning biosphere we have down here already. Go Elon, go! #TaxTheRich #SaveThePlanet

@maxthefox @ZachWeinersmith

TCatLikesReality
2 weeks ago

@Npars01 @rbreich
These #Billionaires 👆 don't support Trump because of his nuanced policy proposals.

They support him because he offers tax cuts and crony capitalism.

Time for #CampaignFinanceReform and to #TaxTheRich with a #WealthTax

MiO
2 weeks ago
Petra van Cronenburg
2 weeks ago

The richest 1 percent of the world’s population produced as much carbon pollution in 2019 than the five billion people who made up the poorest two-thirds of humanity, reveals a new Oxfam report: https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/richest-1-emit-much-planet-heating-pollution-two-thirds-humanity Before #COP28 starts, Oxfam has launched a petition: https://makerichpolluterspay.org/

#carbon #climateJustice #pollution #billionaires #taxTheRich #ClimateCrisis #Oxfam #MakeRichPollutersPay

Monty 'Hui Haunebuh' Runner
2 weeks ago

@pallenberg
Extremer Reichtum ist ungerecht und demokratiefeindlich. Weg damit!

Was die Emissionsverteilung angeht, frage ich mich, ob die Argumentation schlüssig ist. Wird Reichtum umverteilt, verschieben sich vermutlich entsprechend die Emissionen. Gehen Reichtum und Emissionen in die Breite, kann es gut sein, dass es dadurch sogar mehr Emissionen gibt.

Reine These ohne Daten. Aus Klimasicht ist es dennoch fraglich #taxtherich zu rufen. Bin trotzdem dafür!

#Erderhitzung #klimakrise

TCatLikesReality
2 weeks ago

@MarkHoltom
Yes!
Taxes are how you build society.

#TaxTheRich

JuneSim63
2 weeks ago

The most comprehensive study of global climate inequality ever undertaken shows that an elite group, made up of 77 million people including billionaires, millionaires and those paid more than US$140,000 (£112,500) a year, accounted for 16% of all CO2 emissions in 2019 – enough to cause more than a million excess deaths due to heat, according to the report from Oxfam.
#ClimateEmergency #Inequality #TaxTheRich

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/20/richest-1-account-for-more-carbon-emissions-than-poorest-66-report-says

Michael ヘビ Steinwandter
2 weeks ago

"In 2019, the richest 1% were responsible for 16% of global carbon emissions, the same as the emissions of the poorest 66% of humanity (5 billion people)."

New OXFAM report: https://policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/climate-equality-a-planet-for-the-99-621551/

#TaxTheRich #NotFair #ClimateInjustice #OXFAM #Emissions #Inequality #FuckThat

A figure showing the share of emissions of the world population. The 10% of the richest emit 50% of global emissions, the middle 40% emit 43%, and the bottom 50% only 8 percent of the emissions.
TCatLikesReality
3 weeks ago

@luckytran
Exactly why the #Dems message needs to be
"The economy is healthy, but not working for everyone. We need to #TaxTheRich and #InvestInTheRest . Give us a Dem Congress like 2021-22 and we can do even more. Liked the #ChildTaxCredit , it's back. Want #StrongUnions , done. Want to #RaiseTheWage and #ProtectAbortion , get us 60 Dem senators "

Greengordon
3 weeks ago

And they will never stop doing this. It’s not that governments are incompetent, it’s that they serve the rich. #TaxTheRich

"Five years on, what can be learned? The first point is that Macron’s fuel tax offered an object lesson in how not to make climate policy. Yet, despite this, politicians across Europe are still too often trying to balance the carbon budget on the backs of working- and lower-middle-class citizens – before finding themselves wrongfooted by the backlash."

Twra Sun
3 weeks ago

Wo bekommen wir nur auf die Schnelle 60 Mrd. Euro her?

#TaxTheRich

PaulaToThePeople :VeryQueer:
3 weeks ago

Because I just saw an article "#TaxTheRich pros and cons" here are my pros and cons:

➕ because eating the rich is illegal
➖ mimimi

#EatTheRich

Andy Wootton
1 month ago

@dangillmor I foresee a minor problem: the things people want will have to be funded in some other way. In a capitalist society, that will have a tendency to increase inequality. Privacy may be regarded as an unnecessary bourgeois luxury by the poor. They can't afford it, unless their privacy is subsidised by the wealthy, who want it more, so #TaxTheRich.

Bye, Felicia!

Jeff Bezos is moving from Seattle to MAGA-state city of Miami.

He and his fiancée Lauren Sánchez bought neighboring mansions for a combined $144 million in “Billionaire Bunker” neighborhood Biscayne Bay.

Matching Florida Man-and-Woman-sions. How fucking romantic.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/03/business/jeff-bezos-miami-move/index.html

#PacificNorthwest #Seattle #MAGA #Bezos #Amazon #USPol #USPolitics #TaxTheRich #BoycottAmazon #Miami #Washington #FloridaMan

Democracy Matters :verified:
1 month ago

Today’s GOP: Make Tax Cheats Great Again!

#GOP #TaxTheRich #VoteBlueToTaxTheRich

GOP logo. Caption: Make Tax Cheats Great Again!
Mathias Hasselmann
1 month ago

Seit Anfang Oktober gibt es eine Europäische #Bürgerinitiative, welche dazu auffordert, eine EU-weite #Vermögenssteuer auf große Vermögen einzuführen. Die Einnahmen sollen genutzt werden, um den #Klimawandel und seine Folgen, sowie die #sozialeUngleichheit zu bekämpfen.

Finde ich gut. Sehr gut sogar!
#TaxTheRich!✊

Bis zum 9. Oktober 2024 braucht diese Initiative 1.000.000 Unterschriften: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/038/public/#/screen/home

Unterschreiben und teilen!

Mehr zu den Initiator*innen: https://www.tax-the-rich.eu/

modulux
1 month ago

If you're an #EU citizen, I strongly encourage you to take a look and consider signing this European Citizen's Initiative (ECI) that calls for the establishment of a #tax on great #wealth to fund a just ecological and social transition: https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2023/000006_en

Boosts very welcome.

#environment #policy #taxation #TaxTheRich