• HasturInYellow@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    But you have to understand, if we regulated these people, THEY WOULD LEAVE! then what would we do?

    OH THE HUMANITY! WHAT WOULD WE DO WITHOUT THE BILLIONAIRES!!?!

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      3 hours ago

      Interestingly enough enough places in the world have attempted to tax billionaires that we do have some data. For the most part they don’t leave.

      They can afford the tax anyway, and really the whole point of money, as far as their concerned, is to just throw it at people to solve problems for them. They don’t want to pay extra tax on principle because they don’t think other people should get their money, but they also don’t actually care enough to go to the effort to leaving.

      Besides where would they go?