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为什么要追泰勒·斯威夫特？停止造就亿万富翁的企业掠夺
解决推动极端财富的企业机制以及真正遏制这种现象的改革的案例。
来源:《Naked Capitalism》伊夫在这里。本文认为，对于解决日益扩大的收入不平等问题，财富税的干预措施为时已晚。 It’s that the system is set up to allow too much extraction by corporate executives and shareholders, particularly via share buybacks, which allow companies to manipulate equity prices by not investing in the business of their business.一些指标：2000年代初，沃伦·巴菲特宣称公司利润占GDP的比重（当时约为6%）高得不可持续。近年来，这一数字几乎是这个水平的两倍。同样，从事资产管理的人成为亿万富翁的可能性是从事科技工作的人的两倍。
作者：Lynn Parramore，新经济思维研究所高级研究分析师。最初发表于新经济思维研究所网站
Targeting billionaires with California’s proposed wealth tax is an eye-catching idea, but perhaps the real problem is how some of these people become billionaires in the first place.
加州长期以来一直计划对超级富豪征税。 In 2024, Assembly Bill 259, backed by progressive Democrats and unions like the California Federation of Teachers, sought annual wealth taxes but was blocked by centrist Democrats, business groups, and Governor Newsom.
Now, advocates are going for a one-time 5% levy on roughly 200 billionaires, covering everything they own — stocks, businesses, art, private islands, personal spacecraft, even intellectual property – basically the whole enchilada if they were state residents on January 1, 2026. SEIU United Healthcare Workers West estimates the tax could raise $100 billion for health and social services.
支持者称其为公平份额。批评者指出了经济、法律和追溯风险。
为什么不对他们征税？
但事情是这样的
我们不想要疾病。
泰勒·斯威夫特不是问题
·禁止股票回购并抑制掠夺性价值榨取。这抑制了财富向顶层的集中。
最后但并非最不重要的一点：