1/2 Dear fellow Europeans, I am respectfully asking you to consider signing this European Citizen Initiative to institute a billionaire tax. It was invented by leading French economist Thomas Piketty; I read the whole thing, and it is technically excellent. Hit me if you have questions, but please sign it, it is important.
It needs 1 million signatures (currently 300K) and seven countries over their threshold (currently three: Denmark, France, Germany).
+bonifartius 𒂼𒄄
@alberto_cottica
states created billionaires by funneling tax money, extracted by violence, into those businesses.
at the same time they create money via artificial inflation, devaluing everyones money in the process. another tax if you want.
all done to finance apparatchiks and bullshit endless wars, killing generations of young men (and women in recent history), just to stick it to whoever is the evil enemy today. maybe just as convenient means for population control.
and now you want to violently rob a handful of rich people because you are plain jealous.
instead of doing away with the giant oppression machine, you lift the machine to godlike status. the only solution ever imaginable is feeding the machine. steadily chipping away any remainders of freedom you had.
rich people never robbed me. rich people didn't prevent me from going to the hardware store because i didn't have the right injection. they will also not send me to war over bullshit, killing people who well could be my friends.
billionaires don't threaten my life, freedom and property or the life life freedom and property of my family, friends or neighbors.
so no, i certainly won't participate in your racketeering attempts.
