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Signatory Peter Vollmer told AFP news agency he was supporting the proposal because he had inherited "a lot of money I do not need". Um yeah, because a guy who

• anonjon 17y ago
  What does sitting in an office have to do with economic policy?
• megaduck 17y ago
  So he would be better educated if you took away his money? Isn't that kind of his point?
  • rsheridan6 17y ago
    That's more of an argument for an estate tax than a tax on the rich in general. I'd have to check my dad's portfolio before I could take a principled position on this issue.
• gloob 17y ago
  I'm not entirely certain that "working for a living" and "understands economics" are meaningfully correlated. "Working for a living" and "being able to understand the basic concept of fiscal policy", maybe, but full-blown economic policy is something rather different.