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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If a post is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Be nice. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements to private messages.
  7. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Putting a tax on billionaires leaving is actually a brilliant idea...

  • Consistent: they made that wealth, in your country, so by the same principles of income tax, VAT, or corporation tax, we know the government believes it deserves a cut. All that money they take wth them is money the government was intending to dip into slowly over the course of 10 years or so.
  • Targets a Loophole: Billionaires are of course uniquely positioned to relocate on a whim - normal people and even many millionaires will not be able to do this, as they can't change jobs on the fly, get someone else to sell their house for them, remotely buy a house in another country.
  • Motivates them to be better: the taxation of billionaires is ultimately about increasing the complexity of the system until they're left with no choice but to be useful. But first we have to weather the storm of them trying to bribe the government not to tax them, before we can get there.
[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

As stated in this post, this exists in several countries: Germany, Norway...

[–] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

So basically the governments of the uk and usa are always like 'ah we can't tax the rich because they'll run away and then we'll go from 10% tax effectiveness to 0%, when countries of a similar developememt level are already doing it and doing fine?

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

Apparently the US also has it (and I just read in a different 2025 article that the vast majority of expatriates do not have to pay it because they're not rich enough).