a proposito di nuove tasse, perkè nn mettere un' iva del 100 % sulle giocate alle slotmachines?

Yesterday, Warren Buffet, plunked down $5 billion for Bank of America's plunging stocks. Today BOA stocks shot up 9.5%, and, today, Warren Buffet is $45 million dollars richer. In 2009, he bought General Electric stocks for a song. Today the song is worth $1.7 billion. Capitalism! Whatever works! If you can make a buck without making widgets, why make widgets? In China people make widgets for a buck an hour, people want $20 an hour here... so long boys!... China, here I come! And then there are bankers: no one knows exactly what they do. Their work is outside the law. Some say they push paper and make no widgets. They pay themselves bonuses in the hundreds of billions anytime, all the time, even when they squander $40 trillion in the global market and cause 100 million people to lose their jobs. A former banker called them criminals but no one called them "uncivilized" and no one called the cops. That's capitalism too! When in high school, back in the early sixties, a geography teacher liked to talk about the future, compared the "planned economy in Russia" with the "free market" in the "democratic West," he predicted the failure of the planned economy; he said that one day capitalism would rule the world; huge companies (corporations); he predicted the robotization of factories and, with that, the end of hunger, poverty, the oppressive work, no more rich and poor, no more wars. He said that was the power of progress and the free market and we would see it. Well, he was almost right. He never foresaw - but then who could - the end of manufacturing on his side of the world and the ensuing growth of poverty.

Did anyone notice how much Buffet made when BOA's shares rose 20% on news of his stake. This is insider trading on a massive scale not a charitable gesture.
People are not concerned about others making lots of money. It is how it is earned and taxed. The industrialists of the 19th and early 20th century provided thousands of jobs as well s homes for workers. They were entrepreneurs.
Today the people who make money do so without any personal risk or even making anything. They just help themselves to oversized remuneration packages never before seen through a cosy incestuous relationship between remuneration committees made up of fellow directors and non exec directors. They make fortunes regardless of their performance and often failure or creating a financial crisis through rampant speculation results in bigger payouts. And shareholders interests prevail rather than jobs. This is what is now being seen as unacceptable.
At the same time Governments have granted the mega rich a range of tax avoidance schemes dreamt up by the all powerful banking sector to keep the fees rolling in not available to the majority of the population creating a nation where different sets of laws apply. How can the Government make a deal with Switzerland that allows British residents who hold secret untaxed accounts in Swiss Banks to remain anonymous while the rest of us have to declare every penny. Why should the wealthiest families avoid inheritance tax and become wealthier at each generation while the majority see their assets confiscated by the state. The greed, corruption, selfishness and inequality in British society is clearly part of the cause of the present riots.
But Britain is not alone. Globalisation has enabled the privileged elite in every major Western economy to distance itself from the majority of the population. In France the mega rich have been allowed to avoid paying the wealth tax,ISF, through a deal that exempts works of art and antiques while the middle class caught in the net pay for their Ikea furniture and prints. In Italy Berlusconi allowed those with illegal offshore accounts - including the mafia - to return their funds in exchange for a 5% tax. What a favour!
The Arab Spring and Los Indignados demonstrations are only the beginning of a wider revolution that must lead to a redistribution of wealth. The rich who are now offering to pay more have seen the writing on the wall and wish to be seen as charitable citizens before their heads roll.

I WOULD LIKE BEPPE GRILLO TO COME IN CANADA, EXPECIALY IN TORONTO TO WAKE ITALIAN PEOPLE REGARDING ITALIAN POLITCS, BECAUSE OUR NEWS IS MADE BY BERLUSCONI FOLLOWERS, PLESE MAKE SOMETHING
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