> 1. Whatever happened to increasing tax rates, like pretty much every other country? Why these weird gimmicks? I live in one of those countries,... I used to

> 1. Whatever happened to increasing tax rates, like pretty much every other country? Why these weird gimmicks? I live in one of those countries,... I used to live in another country, that had a red star in the flag, I haven't moved, but I now live in another country... which again has new parties with red star flags. Every time I hear "tax the rich", the same thing happens... the poor already pay almost zero tax, so nothing happens to them. The rich open a company two countries away in one direction, and register their car two countries away in a different direction, and in the end, pay very little tax. And me? Earning an above-national-average engineering pay, but way below "rich" enough to make such manipulations worth it? I get fucked with new taxes. In an ideal world, both people like me and people like bezos would pay a same amount (percentage) of tax for every dollar/euro going from our workplace to the crap we both buy, but somehow i get taxed as fuck, and Bezos doesnt ( https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-did-not-pay-income-taxes-2-years-report-2021-6 https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-did-not-pay-incom... ). So how about we first tax Amazon and Bezos at the same rate we tax the local mom and pop bookstore, and their owners paychecks, and then continue from there.