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[–] MajorHavoc 9 points 10 months ago

"millionaires tax" is such a ludicrous misnomer.

This is a tax on people with over $1 million income annually. It's very hard to sink as low as becoming a mere "millionaire" on $1 million annual income.

A person making $1 million in income would need mutliple expensive hobbies, multiple nasty drug habits and to recklessly sink a few yachts, just to drop as low in net worth as a humble jeans-wearing crime-avoiding salt-of-the-earth "millionaire".

An average chap who spent 40 years owning a small lawn mowing business is a millionaire. This tax doesn't touch his money, at all.

I guess "multimillionaire" and "decamillionaire" don't roll off the tongue, in headlines, though.

[–] Illuminostro 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Raise it to 10%. And tax any idle stock over 1 million shares, 1% per share, per curent price, per quarter.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

I kind of disagree. We should go for people at the top 1% with large shares in top companies