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> Why don't they just stop using tax deductions, tax planning and tax havens? Given that this isn't signed by every rich person ever. Wouldn't that just mean t

> Why don't they just stop using tax deductions, tax planning and tax havens? Given that this isn't signed by every rich person ever. Wouldn't that just mean that the people left at the top are the assholes? If 10% if the richest 1% (not necessarily the richest 10% of them) stopped using tax havens, they get punished, while the other rich people her to reap the rewards.

HissingMachine 7y ago
But it would be a start at least, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet started the Giving Pledge, at first it only meant that those two were going to give most of their wealth to charity, but now there are over 200 members. And like I said, it doesn't have to stop at the individual level, they have leverage to pressure the companies they own to stop tax dodging which would have much larger impact than the wealth tax they are proposing here. And it doesn't even block the wealth tax from happening eventually. All I'm saying is that they have tools at their disposal right not, but still they are lobbying for another tax, which eventually some will evade, so why not start from paying current ones they are currently evading and not invent a new just to evade it eventually?