How Spain put up wealth taxes - without chasing away the billionaires

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/aug/16/spain-put-up-wealth-taxes-pandemic-billionaires-stayed

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Jeredin@discuss.online · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Lie to them, “no really, it’s your city - but, you have to take good care of it or we’ll take it away!”

gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 0 pts · 1y

awful Trump Washington DC and NYC vibes here

zbyte64@awful.systems · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

And their GDP growth was better than the UK and USA....

gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 1y

who would have thought giving money to people stimulates consumerism?