One of the major points of our party for the upcoming election is to introduce a tax on people with a net worth of over 5 million euro. The tax has been calculated by independent checkers and it is estimated that it will rake in 8 to 10 billion euro annually.
Everyone and their mother is now saying that a tax like that would be a disaster as every rich people 'will just flee the country'. Which they will not, as has been shown by previous countries like France introducing a similar tax FOR DECADES with less than 0.2% of the rich people leaving.
But what saddens me the most is that so many people just accept this threat as normal. Like, what does it say about our system if rich people hoarding all the wealth without contributing to society can throw a fit and leave? Is that not a sick system to live in? You off all people are the one creating the wealth for these people. Be mad, please. Be outraged that they dare to do something like that, while our government is planning to cut the budgets of healthcare, education, public transport and whatnot. For fuck's sake have some dignity.
It's normalizing financial terrorism. It's the same thing people say when you bring up the US stock market and doing anything about the corruption. I heard people at work like "yeah the stock market is corrupt but if we do anything to threaten the rich they will just fuck the economy for everyone" or some such shit. Like imagine being so c*cked by capitalism that you response to them stealing from you is "well yeah but if we don't let them steal from us they will destroy our entire way of life" and then just go on about your day.