How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them. It ...
It's ironic that first Corbyn and Sanders, and now the Greens are being criticised for being too left wing at a time when wealth inequality and social and environmental exploitation are approaching the same proportions that gave rise to communism i the first place.
From a geopolitical perspective, it's hard to see how the current state can be corrected without a fundamental change to the global world order.
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social I find people freak out when you say we need to tax the super rich. They assume I'm talking about them, as they have no concept of how much richer than them the super rich are.
To make it work we need it to be in many countries and with properly funded tax authorities that share data properly, or the money will just vanish into tax havens.
I'm looking for a 25% wealth tax/year on families worth more than $200m, dropping to 5% when they're down to $78m.
California is pondering a 1-time 5% tax on families worth us$1.1b. 60% of NY residents (not just NYC) favour free, universal childcare until pre-K, with an explicit tax on the rich to fund it.
So, I want wayyy more, to end the 1%.
In the US, and I assume elsewhere since we export all the very worst we have, it began with Ronald Reagan and his de-regulation, union busting Reaganomics bullcrap.
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