If you tax the wealthy they’ll leave.

We tax them. They leave.

Every country taxes them. They leave.

Now they live in international waters on giant boats. They hate it. The food is awful. They get norovirus a lot.

The world carries on, considerably better off.

@GrantMeStrength there doesn’t seem to be any actual statistical evidence that they do leave. Just anecdotal threats to intimidate government into not taxing them.
Millionaire tax that inspired Mamdani fuels $5.7 billion haul in Massachusetts

In two years levying a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, it's funded bridge repairs, bolstered literacy programs and tackled a transportation deficit.

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@FeloniousPunk @peterbrown @GrantMeStrength The US has lots of test cases, due to differences between state income tax rates (excess of 10% in some states, zero on others), and millionaires always say the next little bit would be the one to make them move. But they're giving up money to stay where they are already, and the difference in amounts is minor. So if money would make them leave, they'd have already left.