Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
If you are a citizen of any EU Member State, I implore you to consider signing the Tax-the-Rich citizens' initiative:
https://www.tax-the-rich.eu/
The idea is to tax the super rich and then use the money for climate justice. :blobcathappypaws:
This is an official EU citizens' initiative, meaning that if it reaches certain thresholds, it *will have to be* considered by the EU institutions. That's a really powerful tool, if actually used.
So we should use it. :blobcatcool:
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
Yes, it's a JS-heavy website with a webdesign that makes my eyes hurt. Sigh, can't have nice things, can we?
You can skip right to the signing by going to the relevant Citizens' Initiatives website on europa.eu here:
https://eci.ec.europa.eu/038/public/
Both sites seem to work fine in a Tor Browser, and the signing requires solving a self-hosted captcha (no Big Tech captcha involved, it seems), so at least that's good.
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
@wolfmaahn @schrottkatze it might not be manual, but automatically crunched every N hours, for example.
wolf maahn
@schrottkatze @rysiek I thought so, too, but wouldn’t that be unbelievably ‚retro‘ ?
Schrottkatze
@wolfmaahn @rysiek I think that these counters in the table may be manually updated by the organisers every now and then? Since it's in the middle of text etc...
wolf maahn
@rysiek Hi, this morning I shared your posting here and did post it on X and bluesky with very good feedback and of course I signed it myself. But strange enough: On the related EU initiative details site ( https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2023/000006_en ) the number of signatures (‚Statements of support’ / Germany) has NOT changed since this morning… 🤔
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
@jhwgh1968 what I love about this is that this is basically governments doing collective bargaining with the capitalist class. :blobcatlaugh:
J. "Henry" Waugh
@rysiek I would also reply to "the rich can just move elsewhere!"
Governments know this, and have an incentive to act collectively. Slowly but surely, they are:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_minimum_corporate_tax_rate
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
> It could never work, because the rich can move / have already moved their wealth elsewhere.
Any such issue is very complex. There are always several things that need to happen to "fix" them.
So, if you react like this to any single attempt — "this can't work, as there are other issues to solve first" — then nothing ever gets fixed.
That's basically nihilism. You do you, but if you are so certain it can't work, why even bother commenting on this at all? 🤔
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