Spain and Brazil have launched a joint initiative to promote higher tax contributions from the super-rich worldwide, aimed at tackling soaring inequality by ensuring those with the most pay their fair share.
  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
    31·
    15 hours ago

    Yes, absolutely unequivocally YES

    Won’t happen though, not for a second

    The world will burn up and the rich will be the last to die, but at least at last, they will burn too.

    Yeah, I’m cynical as hell but what’s left these days? I grew up on a steady diet of one hero after another chosing to do the right thing and sacrifice themselves if they had to, because they were the one who could make the difference. So in the real world we have politicians and rich assholes, and they’d all sacrifice their own children before themselves. Nobody will stand up anymore so yeah, were fucked.

  • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
    11·
    1 day ago

    This is unquestionably a good thing. But it’s also kind of weird that it’s Brasil of all places in on this, since the inequality there between the super wealthy and the folks living in the favelas is just an accepted part of life…kind of like the caste system in India.

    I’m not saying that that’s a good thing. I’m just saying that I wouldn’t imagine the Brasilian authorities would actually give a shit considering the state of their own inequality and how it’s just kind of taken as a “reality of life” down there.

      • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 hours ago

        That’s good to hear. It’s been many years since I’ve stayed in touch with either my extended family or my friends who live down there. (Most of my family moved from Portugal to Canada, but a couple of distant cousins moved instead to Brasil…around Niteroi if I remember correctly)

        I last spoke with them in the early 2000s, and back then it was a pretty crazy contrast between the rich and the poor. Almost no true middle class. You either were wealthy enough to have servants, or you WERE the servant and went home to your favela that (if you were lucky) had electricity.

  • CuffsOffWilly@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    Meanwhile in Italy they tax foreign bank accounts with more than a 5K balance. That is not rich. And foreign investments at 0.02%. It is shocking seeing my principle taxed annually. By a country with five different police and an incredible amount of tax waste associated with corruption. Very frustrating and it seems everyone is complaining about the number of Italians not paying taxes. There’s a reason.