And that’s why most of our billionaires live abroad.
Which isn’t an argument against taxing billionaires (as I often see it in the newspapers here in Norway) but for more harmonised global taxation
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well if that’s all it takes, the us should definitely sign up
if they’re not paying significant taxes, they’re not really contributing anything anyway. might as well show them the door. the less entitled jerks the better
oh, okay. that’s good too
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I mean, you’d still hear just as much from them. It’s purely a legal move. They still insert themselves into national debates, usually with “This is why I moved to Switzerland!!!11!!!1!!”
And the US is almost unique in that it still extracts tax from citizens living abroad, anyway. So there is less incentive to use that sham maneuver.
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Thanks, Guardian!/s
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Procter & Gamble and Kimberly-Clark control 70% of the domestic market. Diaper prices have increased by more than 30% since 2019 from, on average, $16.50 to nearly $22.
glad that idea about monopolies being fine – so long as they didn’t affect consumer prices – is working out so well.
P&G executives said in their July earnings call they expect $800m in windfall profits because of declining input costs, suggesting they won’t bring down prices.
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… reciting with drooling, gibbering, Baron-Vladimir-Harkonnen-like glee that 
orchestrated one of the biggest wealth transfers in U.S. history, if not regular ol’ history in general:
U.S. Billionaires Got $1 Trillion Richer During Trump’s Term
- The country’s top 50 billionaires collected 80% of that gain
- Some of the President’s biggest critics gained the most
October 30, 2020 at 6:00 AM CDT
Lest we forget.
Honestly I am fairly sure most of us on this thread have not forgotten.
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It’s not just TFG, though. I mean, sure, he was indeed dribbingly, gleefully happy to do it, but he was just the US face of the global push. It wasn’t just in the US that this happened, it was pretty much everywhere.
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Take your pick:
- tax offset & positive PR
- future site for yet another AWS bit barn
- (subsidised) space port as a public front with not-so-public doomsday bunker
- some sort of vanity project that has no public value or environmental merit whatsoever, but pisses off Mark Zuckerberg (which at least would be mildly amusing)
- combination of all of this
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Maui needs a 15 foot concrete wall around his estate connecting with a sea wall shutting down public beach access. As a firebreak.
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I can think of something else to do to the rich. But taxation is a good start, I suppose.
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NIH 2024budget: $51B
NSF 2024 budget: $10B
NEoA 2024 budget: $220M
The US has some fucked up priorities when we spend so little on science, the arts, and medicine while billionaires accrue massive fortunes paying little to no taxes.
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If you’re thinking of eating the rich, I’d recommend not doing that. Prion diseases are a thing, and besides, you have no idea what they’ve been putting into their bodies in their efforts to live forever/take all of the drugs/both.
Compost the rich instead. The environment will thank you.
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NEH: about two wooden nickles and some pocket lint. Probably 
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It has been a while since I looked it up, but the armed forces bands usually have a higher budget than the National Endowment for the Arts.
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They’re not good eating. But if you’re hungry enough…
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