Germany's Left Party wants to halve billionaires' wealth
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Forbes and the rich themselves have no issue assigning net worth.
It's not hard to setup objective parameters that measure wealth in all the forms it can be held.
The idea that it isn't is propaganda
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The French have invented a marvelous tool for that. It leaves the wealthy a bit lightheaded.
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Billionaires hoarding wealth like dragons on gold while society crumbles isn’t a flex—it’s a failure. Die Linke’s plan? Brutal, necessary, and doomed. Measuring illiquid assets? Please. We tax houses and stocks daily—this “complexity” is propaganda to shield oligarchs.
The real issue? A system rigged to protect capital. The 5% threshold? A gatekeeping farce. Even if they breach it, the SPD will fold faster than a wet paper bag, muttering about “pragmatism” while serving neoliberal lapdogs. Revolution dies in committee. But hey—at least they’re trying to light a match in a rainstorm.
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Treating the symptom and not the problem IMO.
Invest in worker co-ops that are equally owned by the workers instead.
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i was talking about the quote rather than you yourself
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Yeah, and they were right about it
Cut them horizontally, and they'll agonize until they die from blood loss. And there's so many ways to botch a vertical cut, what with all those solid bones like the skull or the pelvis...
A sharp guillotine blade right on the neck is the tried-and-tested humane way to deal with the owners
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Make every time it's used as collateral a taxable event. Prosecute for fraud any valuations that try to dodge tax. Its a very fixable problem.
For those with wealth or income above a certain amount, require that their wealth is assessed annually, not on sale only and capital gains tax is paid each year.
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Or just seize anything above a billion, the number of billionaires are now zero.
Redistribute seized assets and poverty is eliminated.
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A mathematically true statement within an error margin of 0.2% (if symetrical, 0.1% if not).
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No I say a law thats works as promised would be (imho) against the constitution
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How? This is about enforcing existing laws. The rich not paying taxes, through legal loopholes and illegal tax fraud, is the exact problem. Your still haven't explained what about the plan would break the constitution.
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Please find some source to corroborate that beyond "(imho)". I already removed your previous comment for misinfo.
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There is a difference between pro establishment and pro government though. In this case Die Linke would probably get away better, if DW would have been pro government, as the only way the current government can remain in power is realisticly to gain more votes and add Die Linke to the governing coalition. Otherwise one of the two governing parties SPD or Greens is likely to be kicked out, as they would govern with the Union.
German public broadcasting is modelled mostly after the BBC, but has quite a lot of impact from the state level, rather then just the federal level.
Also Linke has been in state level government before and have achieved very little. They are not as much out of the establishment as the UK Greens are, despite being of a similar party size.
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Stop, you’re being too sensible.
