Canadians, time to #BoycottPattison. Jim Pattison, BC grocer billionaire, owns a US warehouse that will soon be an ICE facility. Let’s crank up the boycott pressure on Pattison and organize for a real #wealthtax on these ghouls. This is a stark reminder of how the billionaire class aids and abets fascist forces.
Canadians, time to #BoycottPattison. Jim Pattison, BC grocer billionaire, owns a US warehouse that will soon be an ICE facility. Let’s crank up the boycott pressure on Pattison and organize for a real #wealthtax on these ghouls. This is a stark reminder of how the billionaire class aids and abets fascist forces.
Australia now has 48 billionaires (up 8 since 2020, because why not?), and these 48 people collectively hold more wealth than the bottom 40% of the entire population — that's roughly 11 million everyday Aussies combined.
Meanwhile, the average Aussie billionaire's wealth grew by almost $600,000 per day over the past year. That's right — while rents climb, groceries hurt, and 3.7 million people (including 757,000 kids) live below the poverty line, the ultra-rich are casually printing half a mil a day. Totally normal, totally moral.
Oxfam is calling it what it is: inequitable, unsustainable, and amoral.
Their big ask? A 5% wealth tax on billionaires alone could've raised $17.4 billion just last year — enough to fund universal cheap childcare, extend energy bill relief for years, massively boost humanitarian aid, and actually ease the housing/childcare squeeze that's crushing everyone else.
Throw in scrapping negative gearing, killing the capital gains tax discount for the wealthy, and maybe a broader progressive wealth tax on the top 0.5%, and suddenly there's real money to fix the things governments always say "we can't afford".
But sure, let's keep protecting the system that lets 48 people out-wealth 11 million, while the rest of us argue about whether $2 milk is a human right. Classic Australia 2026.
Tax the rich. Disrupt the vicious cycle. Make billionaires pay their fair share for once.
#taxtherich #wealthtax #auspol #inequality #billionaires #oxfam #economicjustice #housingcrisis #childcarecrisis #povertyinaustralia #eattherich
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/wealth-tax-australia-billionaires-oxfam/9wsstq0nw
Australia now has 48 billionaires (up 8 since 2020, because why not?), and these 48 people collectively hold more wealth than the bottom 40% of the entire population — that's roughly 11 million everyday Aussies combined.
Meanwhile, the average Aussie billionaire's wealth grew by almost $600,000 per day over the past year. That's right — while rents climb, groceries hurt, and 3.7 million people (including 757,000 kids) live below the poverty line, the ultra-rich are casually printing half a mil a day. Totally normal, totally moral.
Oxfam is calling it what it is: inequitable, unsustainable, and amoral.
Their big ask? A 5% wealth tax on billionaires alone could've raised $17.4 billion just last year — enough to fund universal cheap childcare, extend energy bill relief for years, massively boost humanitarian aid, and actually ease the housing/childcare squeeze that's crushing everyone else.
Throw in scrapping negative gearing, killing the capital gains tax discount for the wealthy, and maybe a broader progressive wealth tax on the top 0.5%, and suddenly there's real money to fix the things governments always say "we can't afford".
But sure, let's keep protecting the system that lets 48 people out-wealth 11 million, while the rest of us argue about whether $2 milk is a human right. Classic Australia 2026.
Tax the rich. Disrupt the vicious cycle. Make billionaires pay their fair share for once.
#taxtherich #wealthtax #auspol #inequality #billionaires #oxfam #economicjustice #housingcrisis #childcarecrisis #povertyinaustralia #eattherich
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/wealth-tax-australia-billionaires-oxfam/9wsstq0nw
Perhaps unsurprisingly both Green Parries (Scotland and England & Wales) have highlighted the lack of a major increase on taxation of the wealthy in their repossess to the Autumn Budget.
It seems pretty clear that while the Labour Party has taken the position (widespread in the media) that a wealth tax is ill-advised, the Green Parties are responding to a wide belief in the electorate that higher taxes on the very wealthy are both needed fiscally & fair politically.
We (tried to) ask Billionares in their Vancouver mansions - what’s an oligarch? 🤔💰 #billionares #oligarchs #fighttheoligarchs #wealthtax #bcgreens
fighttheoligarchs.ca
Perhaps unsurprisingly both Green Parries (Scotland and England & Wales) have highlighted the lack of a major increase on taxation of the wealthy in their repossess to the Autumn Budget.
It seems pretty clear that while the Labour Party has taken the position (widespread in the media) that a wealth tax is ill-advised, the Green Parties are responding to a wide belief in the electorate that higher taxes on the very wealthy are both needed fiscally & fair politically.
We (tried to) ask Billionares in their Vancouver mansions - what’s an oligarch? 🤔💰 #billionares #oligarchs #fighttheoligarchs #wealthtax #bcgreens
fighttheoligarchs.ca
We (tried to) ask Billionares in their Vancouver mansions - what’s an oligarch? 🤔💰 #billionares #oligarchs #fighttheoligarchs #wealthtax #bcgreens
fighttheoligarchs.ca
#Norway's #WealthTax Unchains a Capital Exodus https://citizenx.com/insights/norway-wealth-exodus/
Wealth tax is gaining momentum. Pressure your MP to do the right thing. #UK #wealthtax
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-your-mp-to-speak-up-against-the-super-rich
Wealth tax is gaining momentum. Pressure your MP to do the right thing. #UK #wealthtax
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-your-mp-to-speak-up-against-the-super-rich
Greenpeace calls for Billionaire Tax to fund climate action ahead of vote on a U$1 trillion pay plan for Elon Musk...
...And launches The Billionaire Taxometer so you can see how much tax YOU pay compared to what the richest man on Earth pays: https://maps.greenpeace.org/gpafrica/billionaire-taxometer/?utm_source=nickofnz&utm_medium=nickofnz
(Taxes are good, they just need to be fair) #TaxTheRich
#taxtherich #wealthtax #capitalgainstax #ElonMusk #greenpeace #tax #game #calculator
Greenpeace calls for Billionaire Tax to fund climate action ahead of vote on a U$1 trillion pay plan for Elon Musk...
...And launches The Billionaire Taxometer so you can see how much tax YOU pay compared to what the richest man on Earth pays: https://maps.greenpeace.org/gpafrica/billionaire-taxometer/?utm_source=nickofnz&utm_medium=nickofnz
(Taxes are good, they just need to be fair) #TaxTheRich
#taxtherich #wealthtax #capitalgainstax #ElonMusk #greenpeace #tax #game #calculator
Why is it "half-baked" to have a #WealthTax ?
That's where the vast amount of wealth is horded because we've hardly updated our approach to taxation in 100 years. The rich know how to avoid income and capital gains.
The IFS is defending a clearly broken system.
BBC News - Rachel Reeves should avoid 'half-baked' tax fixes in Budget, says IFS - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2n08n15w2o
Why is it "half-baked" to have a #WealthTax ?
That's where the vast amount of wealth is horded because we've hardly updated our approach to taxation in 100 years. The rich know how to avoid income and capital gains.
The IFS is defending a clearly broken system.
BBC News - Rachel Reeves should avoid 'half-baked' tax fixes in Budget, says IFS - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2n08n15w2o
