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You need to start somewhere. It is easier to start with the super-rich because average Joe has no problem with it. And then you can try to trickle down until average Joe is also affected with the reasoning that not only the super rich are a problem for the environment. But if you stsrt from the bottom the average Joe will pount at jets of the super rich people and fight such legislation very hard.

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> It is easier to start with the super-rich because average Joe has no problem with it.

Passing the legislation may be easier but enforcing it is more difficult because:

- super rich people can afford to employ people like tax lawyers to help them get around things like this and still save money

- they can rock up to any country in the world and be welcomed in, thus leaving anywhere that bothers them. Then the tax take is zero.

They have options that most people don’t. What fascinates me is how oblivious to these options the people proposing such policy changes are, it’s why so many “good intention” laws/policies get passed and yet no progress - or even a regression - is made.

Until now, its worked the opposite way, where ordinary people and small businesses have to deal with every badly-reasoned knee-jerk law and regulation, while big companies and billionaires just ignore it or have armies or lawyers for their day in court.

This is just a proposal - a far cry from an enacted and enforced law.

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