Germany’s Left Party wants to halve billionaires’ wealth

https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-left-party-wants-to-halve-billionaires-wealth/a-71550347

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  3. Die Linke is a left-wing populist party directly descended from the SED.

  4. This is good. Even if no such plan is actually feasible, it’s good to keep some discussion on the massive, burgeoning wealth of the super rich and public consciousness on it instead of letting the far right parties like AfD (who are radical neoliberals as well as insane Nazi sympathisers) dictate public perception of where the problems are. Germany has gotten way more neoliberal compared to what it used to be and it’s hardly an easy thing to say this improved the society.

  5. There shouldn’t be any billionaires. It’s bad for democracy and and it’s bad for capitalism. Why is this so hard to understand?

  6. Damn a bunch of middle income folks are about to be mad 🤬

  8. If you don’t, they will take it and use it to buy your government. Taxation isn’t just good economic policy, it’s essential to preserve your country.

  11. What do billionaires even do with so much money. If I had 100 million, I would stop caring about making money for the rest of my life.

  12. That’s cool and all for the headlines, but they don’t support more weapons to Ukraine. So hope they stay irrelevant

  13. I have nothing against people owning a house or two, but it is obvious that wealth inequality is out of control, and the top 0.1 to 1% have far too much. Even if someone wants to keep capitalism, there should be taxes that prevent the accumulation of extreme wealth.

    Otherwise, fascists rise to power, and that is bad for everyone. It is time to care about society, or it will collapse under technofascism and climate change.

  14. If only they didn’t oppose supporting Ukraine… They’d have my vote. But in it’s current state – no way.

  15. Stupid, highly destructive idea with zero chance of implementation.

    Extremely popular on Euroreddit.

  16. Wondering how this can be done as billionaires are also the most mobile people in the world. Can’t they just move their wealth and themselves into a “friendlier country”? Or just buy politicians to make this not happening?

  18. They are just gonna leave before that happens, let’s just be real

  19. How dare they disperse the economy away from the hands of like five dudes. Who do they think it’s for. People?!

  21. If you do this, today you have X millionaires/billionaires, tomorrow you have X/2 after that, 0

  23. When did reddit became a left/anarchist bubble? Was it always like this? I remember this sub was more serious a couple years before.

    Now all reddit is 90% is free Luigi, seize the means of production, and 10% crazy clown maga

    No serious discourse on either side ofcourse most of the time.

  28. The liberals will come out in full force to defend billionaires

  29. They should build a wall. On one side they would place people who vote on these Left parties, on the other side they would place people who vote on the Right. After a couple of years, we would evaluate how that would turn out and who wants to flee where. Oh, wait, that has been done before in Germany!

  30. Hence why the party should never be allowed to enter parliament and disturb honest and hard-working people with their petty delusions and gibs mentality. /s

    Sorry, but the discourse pisses me off. “I don’t vote die Linke, because they’re incapable of governance.” And the FDP instead obviously is capable and willing to govern, you asshat!?

  31. The only thing that can fix a country.
    The monopoly game, each game, all money goes back in the pile. How playable would it be if the players just kept it?

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