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Meta strikes deal with Zuckerberg to protect him from California wealth tax (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 7 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

I think tax avoidance schemes like that should result in basically exile. You don't want to pay your fair share to participate in society? Ok, enjoy no society. Not even jail. Just drop them in international waters. Sorry, food requires roads to be able to transport and those use taxes, so since you don't want to pay your share of taxes you don't get the privilege of anything they supply. Just the one free transport and confiscation of everything else since you don't exist as a person in society.

That's probably a little harsh, but I am just over theses people. What ever happened with the Panama papers? Oh, that's right, nothing. They are ruining society for everyone else and there is just no recourse.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 hours ago* (2 children)

    I mean… making a person stateless is actually considered a crime against humanity by the UN.

    I think exponentially-compounding fines for hyper-wealthy individuals would be perfectly fine, tbh. Also, we’d definitely need to be a LOT more aggressive in terms of slapping those types down as vexatious litigants - look up the implications of that (in US courts, at least) if you’re not familiar with the term.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 hours ago (1 child)

    I was admittedly being hyperbolic. Here's me saying the same thing not too long ago: https://reddthat.com/comment/29539867

    It would also be a crime because you're essentially killing them. Being dropped randomly into international waters with no preparation would probably be a bigger concern for them than if their passport is still valid. There are definitely a lot of solutions we haven't tried between our current nothing and state sanctioned murder, I just wish we'd actually implement one.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 hours ago

    All that said, it’d be kinda sweet if we could just give these broligarch fuckwits the Napoleon Bonaparte treatment (marooned on St Helena - but these days, probably with a watchdog naval detachment of some sort to detain and similarly incarcerate any broligarch buddies who try to un-exile them with their mega-yachts).

    Or, hell, we could even grant Phony Stark his wish: send the fuckers to Mars. Move fast and break things, right guys? That’s what they all say they want, yeah? 😜

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