Billionaires should not exist.

https://midwest.social/post/9950630

Billionaires should not exist. - midwest.social

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13165402 [https://lemmy.world/post/13165402]

For Germany the Informationen is wrong we have at maximum 45% income tax if you mske more then 170k a month and you pay 42% at 66 k. We literally have no wealth tax because of a loophole in regards to inheritance. Also Social security has a maximal ammount that does not increase after a certain income threshold.

The income ammount is not 100% correct but it is arround that ammount.

Yeah almost every income tax barely applies to the wealthy, on all of these. They don’t make their income from paychecks, they make it from capital gains. And capital gains taxes are laughably low across the board. The billionaires and incredibly highly wealthy will laugh all the way to the bank as they vote for higher income tax brackets, as long as the capital gains taxes stay low. Granted they are far higher in every nation outside the US, but still not high enough, and capital gains should have its own set of tax brackets