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2024-06-30 Europe

Panic Time: Netherlands' Wealth Tax Gets Shot Down, Must Be Refunded

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Posted by Frank G 2024-06-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top
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#1 Warning for the demoncrats thinking about such a thing in the US.

Spoiler alert:

They still will push it and get shot down

Posted by DarthVader 2024-06-30 01:12|| 2024-06-30 01:12|| Front Page Top

#2 & the working citizen of modest means was squeezed & Squeezed until dry to fund insane European parliament activist hobby projects, my taxes for instance funded hamas with no-one asking any questions.

Posted by Rupert+Gleck2911 2024-06-30 05:00|| 2024-06-30 05:00|| Front Page Top

#3

How about a simple FLAT TAX?
Where taxes are equally imposed on all taxpayers, WITHOUT any special "donor" included exemptions.

Posted by NN2N1 2024-06-30 05:46|| 2024-06-30 05:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Taxation is theft, the bulk of what gummint spends is on redistribution programs that are not authorized anywhere in the Constitution.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-06-30 06:34|| 2024-06-30 06:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Wealth tax won’t happen in America until the king of crony capitalism, Warren Buffett, passes away and after his Billions are sheltered into ‘charitable trusts’ run by his family and friends.

Posted by Airandee 2024-06-30 06:55|| 2024-06-30 06:55|| Front Page Top

#6 There would be a lot of 'wailing and gnashing of teeth' for a true Flat Tax proposal NN2N1, as it would also target the lower earning 'constituencies'.

The aforementioned concerns would only occur during election years, however.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2024-06-30 07:55|| 2024-06-30 07:55|| Front Page Top

#7 Everyone should have skin in the game. Yes some flat amount of a peon's annual income is a lot of money to the peon. But it does make him equal - in at least one way - with the people who really pay the freight in America.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-06-30 08:06|| 2024-06-30 08:06|| Front Page Top

#8 Maybe if an endless supply of cheap labor wasn't being imported illegally wages might rise.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-06-30 08:10|| 2024-06-30 08:10|| Front Page Top

#9 There was a US court decision earlier this week that upheld a tax on some unrealized income. details

Posted by Mercutio 2024-06-30 09:58|| 2024-06-30 09:58|| Front Page Top

#10 The key wording seems to be realizedbut undistributed.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-06-30 10:09|| 2024-06-30 10:09|| Front Page Top

#11 Why no flat tax?

Because pols want to play the game of 'envy' from the lower caste against the upper caste. You see they talk 'soak the rich', the rich in turn to protect what they have buy the pols to write intricate loop holes and write offs that allow the rich to avoid being soaked. How do you get graft and corruption without the game?

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-06-30 10:32|| 2024-06-30 10:32|| Front Page Top

#12 No flat tax because that eliminates the need to buy a politician to reward the donor and punish the competition. Crony capitalism requires pay to play.

Posted by Airandee 2024-06-30 16:19|| 2024-06-30 16:19|| Front Page Top

#13 No flat tax because it's all a game and the politicians enhance their enjoyment of it by tilting the playing field.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-06-30 17:27|| 2024-06-30 17:27|| Front Page Top

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