• Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Setting a maximum wage for them wouldn’t do a damn thing. They’ll just use the wealth they already have to hoover up more through things like insider trading or flat out stealing company money.

    Adding a maximum wage for the rich would be like trying to drain the ocean using a toy bucket.

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      9 months ago

      In an ideal world anyone making more than, let’s say for an example, $1 million in a year would pay 100% tax on anything more.

      No one needs more than $1,000,000 a year for anything. No one works hard enough to actually deserve that. It’s just pure luck and/or screwing over other people to get more than that.

      Unfortunately if one country implements that, all the rich people leave and go live somewhere else that doesn’t tax that much.

      • KᑌᔕᕼIᗩ@lemmy.ml
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        9 months ago

        On paper they don’t make anything a year and pay less tax than you or I. The only way that’s going to change is a massive world-wide effort to crack down on tax havens and to start taxing their assets fully.

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      9 months ago

      That or they just don’t set their residency in Canada. Rich people can choose to move and reside anywhere they want

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        9 months ago

        The only greener pastures for the rich would be moving to their southern neighbor since it’s probably the safest place for the rich currently. Not many options if they don’t wanna be screwed.