A lot of conservatives are happy to eat shit if they know that you'll just eat more of it
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Ce qui m'échappe complètement c'est surtout, pourquoi est ce qu'on a arrêté?
I'm going to talk about France and not the US because that's where I live.
We have 55 billionaires, among them, the richest man and the richest woman on earth. More than 50% of them come from aristocratic or highly privileged backgrounds. That includes Arnault and Bettencourt, but there is also Pinault, Bolloré, Dassault, etc. That's your part about inheritance. These people are insanely rich beyond anything imaginable because inheritance isn't taxed properly here. It used to be, but not anymore and since then, the amount of millionaires and billionaires exploded. Must be a coincidence I suppose, same for the fact that France is top 3 world wide in number of millionaires.
I agree that you should be able to give your kids part of what you worked for, but that absolutely needs to be progressively taxed, and with hard limits over which a state takes pretty much everything. Especially when it comes to that kind of wealth.
https://www.thelocal.fr/20230405/french-billionaires-top-list-for-worlds-richest-men-and-women
Thankfully enough, we don't have much wage theft here because of our somewhat solid workers rights. If you want a definition with my words, it's when an employer doesn't provide the benefits legally due to an employee. It can manifest with not following minimum wage laws, undeclared overtime, or garbage contracts.
Speaking of taxes and handouts, France gives every year a whopping 200 billion Euros to help French companies , no questions asked. That's about 30% of our budget. These 200 billion euros come in three parts, one of them being legal tax loopholes, in which companies can pour money and not being taxed on it. Another one is exemption from social security contributions, they basically don't pay some taxes that would finance our social services (or our unemployment fund or our retirement funds). And the last one is a direct handout from the government, with absolutely no expectations of results whatsoever. And once again, strangely enough we have some of the biggest companies in the world that have reported record profits in the recent years. And I'm not even talking about the massive inflation we are going through.
https://linsoumission.fr/2024/04/05/200-milliards-aides-entreprises/
Let's also not forget that these massive companies and their billionaires/CEO don't pay their taxes or pay a very low amount. You probably pay more than they do as a proportion of your wealth. Arnault's income tax rate is at 14%, the dude has a 70 million euro salary as CEO of LVMH for fuck's sake.
In France, poverty rate increased in the last 20 years, also strangely enough, we've had liberal trickle down economic policies for the past 20 years as well. Our social services are in absolute shambles because among other things, "lack of funds" and rampant privatisation. Who are the private owners ? Said billionaires up above, mostly.
https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/7710966
Let's not forget how these people also rig the game in their favour too. In France, 90% of mass media is owned by roughly 10 people (Niel, Lagardère, Bolloré, Pinault, Arnault, Bouygues, Dassault, Drahi, and I forgot the other two). One of them being Vincent Bolloré, a massive Christian conservative fascist, there is also an arms dealer (Dassault) or a known fraud (Drahi). Bolloré massively influenced the last elections thanks to his mouth pieces (C8, Europe 1 among others). He got one of his TV licences revoked because of that, but that's obviously far from being enough.
These people also gather frequently with our lawmakers and our dearest president, on public funds obviously.
I'm not saying that taxing these people to hell and back would solve world hunger, but god damn if it wouldn't massively tackle inequalities. There is only a limited amount of money in the economy, and an absolutely humongous amount is concentrated in the hands of the few and it's not being properly recirculated and redistributed.
Their fair share would be a better, progressive, tax rate and a flat limit above which 99% or 100% is taken by the state. Nobody needs a billion Euros, ever.
For your last point, the point of taxes is to take more to people who can afford it and give (directly via social security measures or indirectly via a better more equal health or education system) to people who can't.
And I'm not even talking about their lobbying, how destructive their lifestyle is for the environment, nepotism, corruption, neo colonial practices in Africa, etc.
TLDR: ~~eat~~ tax the fucking rich
Merci Vincent, merci Manu !
Well, solar farms, wind farms, and nuclear power plants are all ugly but they're a whole lot prettier than coal mines, offshore rigs or coal burning plants.
It's because of their display name, their username is [email protected], but their display name is "NotANaziIWasJustBornIn1988".
I suppose not every instance/app shows display names.
The problem is not having poor people and rich people. The problem is that some people have so much money because of tax evasion, wage theft, inheritance and other things, all the while some people are going hungry.
Knowing that these filthy rich people are actively making sure they don't contribute their fair share to society, make society and the planet worse just to have their fancy numbers always grow bigger.
No worries, it's not easy to imagine that kind of thing if you have a good relationship with your parents.
The CFC that caused the issue in the first place will take a long time to completely disappear. Also we haven't completely stopped using them, and apparently since 2012, the CFC production started to increase again in Asia.
It also seems that the Tonga eruption played a role in the expansion.
I heard Starlink satellites could play a role, but it's probably minuscule compared to what CFCs can do.
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You say that but the ozone layer hole actually started to grow again in the past few years.
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He's a big mouthed dude and he's got some questionable positions, especially when it comes to China and Russia. I'm not a big fan of him and his persona but he's also not completely wrong on a lot of subjects (moving away from the 5th republic, increasing taxation for the rich, welcoming refugees, funding of social services, etc).
Some people love to paint him as a Stalin/Pol pot/Mao to be, and as the other side of the extreme coin.
My biggest gripe with him is that LFI is his party and there's not much democracy in it. A lot of people got excluded because they dared to speak up, which is not a great outlook when trying to defend yourself from being an authoritarian party.