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Genuine question, as that doesn't sound like a a fair experiment. Couldn't they just limit the amount you can emigrate from the country with. So if you emigra

Genuine question, as that doesn't sound like a a fair experiment. Couldn't they just limit the amount you can emigrate from the country with. So if you emigrate, you can only take a maximum of, say, €10 mill. i.e. earn it in France, using French laws, a French education and French infrastructure, it stays in France. Obviously it clashes with EU free movement, but basically the problem seems to be we can't tax the rich because they take advantage of globalism to move their money around. Isn't the solution to stop them moving it, rather than giving up?

nec4b 6y ago
You mean something like a Berlin wall to stop the people leaving the paradise or a new kind of serfdom, where one should be tied to the land in which he was born?
- throwaway316943 6y ago
  Nailed it, serfdom was implemented exactly for the purpose of preventing tax evasion. Something something... doomed to repeat it.
markus_zhang 6y ago
They have great influences among the lawmakers. Rich people won't get themselves taxed(in general)
throwawaysea 6y ago
> the problem seems to be we can't tax the rich because they take advantage of globalism to move their money around The problem is that different places have different values and policies and compete with each other? The problem is that people have the audacity to disagree with governments and seek out different ways of living? Sorry but any proposal that disincentivizes or punishes free movement is atrocious and totalitarian. And I mean that literally.
ABCLAW 6y ago
I dunno why this is downvoted. This phrase: "the problem seems to be we can't tax the rich because they take advantage of globalism to move their money around" Is a tiny distillation of one of the most difficult problems facing legislators intending to mitigate wealth inequality across their society: if the rich get upset, they can just take their toys and leave. This is, from the perspective of legislative generations, a very new problem that has crystallized in the past 40 years with the expansion and standardization of international trade law.

nec4b 6y ago

You mean something like a Berlin wall to stop the people leaving the paradise or a new kind of serfdom, where one should be tied to the land in which he was born?

throwaway316943 6y ago
Nailed it, serfdom was implemented exactly for the purpose of preventing tax evasion. Something something... doomed to repeat it.

markus_zhang 6y ago

They have great influences among the lawmakers. Rich people won't get themselves taxed(in general)

throwawaysea 6y ago

> the problem seems to be we can't tax the rich because they take advantage of globalism to move their money around The problem is that different places have different values and policies and compete with each other? The problem is that people have the audacity to disagree with governments and seek out different ways of living? Sorry but any proposal that disincentivizes or punishes free movement is atrocious and totalitarian. And I mean that literally.

ABCLAW 6y ago

I dunno why this is downvoted. This phrase: "the problem seems to be we can't tax the rich because they take advantage of globalism to move their money around" Is a tiny distillation of one of the most difficult problems facing legislators intending to mitigate wealth inequality across their society: if the rich get upset, they can just take their toys and leave. This is, from the perspective of legislative generations, a very new problem that has crystallized in the past 40 years with the expansion and standardization of international trade law.