threeganzi

The Americans might be right on this one. Perhaps if we give them this one they will give us the metric system.

Would you mind clarifying what you think is misleading in the title?

There are so many things you can do between nothing and full on invasion. Your question cannot possibly be in good faith.

Why should someone be able to live off dividends if they have “ultra-rich” wealth at the bank? This person has a lot of money so if they live in an RV it’s obviously a choice they made.

Plus they could just spend some of that stock money and go below “ultra rich” level and get taxed less. And perhaps then they have to use part of their non-ultra-rich wealth to live their RV dream life to supplement their dividends. Doesn’t sound too bad.

TLDR; I don’t feel bad for someone that can’t live dividends when hey have more than one million euro in the bank.

Edit: while is still stand by comment, I do see I missed your point about fairness. Not too big of a problem in my mind. Or perhaps a solution would be to tax home values above X amount? (Edit2: and only the amount above X)

Thanks for the context. And I have no idea who Paul Magnette is so I’ll take your word for it.

I think your point about cost of family homes makes sense. If that is the case it might need an adjustment.

I have no experience with economic systems, but I wonder what the effect on home prices would be if taxed at the levels proposed. My hunch would be that home prices would decrease. The risk is of course that families with less financial means that borrowed money to afford a home will loose money.

Regardless, the main problem is extreme wealth disparity. My question is mainly, are the home prices high because wealth is high?

Yeah, I admittedly chose the latter :)

I admittedly haven’t read the material, but your quoted text sounds very vague and indirect. Perhaps there was more content that was more direct and concrete.

Doesn’t the align perfectly with the claim in the book?

What makes you say it’s a just another tax on the middle class?

If we could just have a tax based on carbon footprint it would incentivize better decisions. And perhaps start low and then slowly increase the tax at a constant and predictable rate so industry and consumers can plan ahead. The tax income could also be equally distributed to all citizens, where people with less carbon footprint gets money back. And now we’ll have a thriving economy driving the climate transition.

Check out Citizens Climate Lobby by the way.

It’s great that she sets the record straight but I didn’t see anything in the article about her saying she was treated well. And I wouldn’t say being held hostage is ever being treated well. I would like to know how she was treated though, as it can’t be easy to “take care” of a hostage in the very dire situation right now in all of Gaza, even if you wanted to.

None of that is to say Israel is in the right, my opinion is quite the opposite.

Semi on topic: If you’re an EU citizen, you might want to sign this petition.

It’s a petition to urge the EU to tax the rich and spend it on the climate transition.