this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2023
406 points (97.2% liked)

World News

38569 readers
1651 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/7812500

PARIS, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Governments should open a new front in the international clampdown on tax evasion with a global minimum tax on billionaires, which could raise $250 billion annually, the EU Tax Observatory said on Monday.

If levied, the sum would be equivalent to only 2% of the nearly $13 trillion in wealth owned by the 2,700 billionaires globally, the research group hosted at the Paris School of Economics said.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] EatYouWell@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So, you trust the governments that created the loopholes that allow the ultra wealthy to avoid taxes to not put in loopholes that allow the ultra wealthy to avoid taxes?

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So you believe any kind of positive change is possible or are you just fatalistic about everything?

Governments can do good things when they try. They don't always succeed, but they definitely won't accomplish anything if all they do is maintain the status quo.

[–] EatYouWell@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

With the current state of the world, I don't believe a change like you're suggesting is possible without large scale violence from the people (I'm not advocating large scale violence from the people)

I think positive change is possible, just not if it impacts the ruling class's hoarded wealth.