FAQ

There are indeed the super-rich who give to charities, but the amount of money flowing from the super-rich to the working people through these charities is much smaller than the amount of money flowing from the working people to the super-rich through business.

Correct, that’s why this Super-Rich Tax only can be implemented if the most important countries in the world do it together and that’s why we count all the votes for this manifesto per country. See the ‘Votes per country’-item in the main menu of this website.

In addition, there is a World Inequality Database that is constantly being expanded. This World Inequality Database (WID.world) aims to provide open and convenient access to the most extensive available database on the historical evolution of the world distribution of income and wealth, both within countries and between countries.

Envision a database that monitors the flow of money worldwide. That’s the essence of a global financial registry. It’s like shining a spotlight on the hiding places used by the wealthy elite and big corporations to stash their riches. By shedding light on financial transactions worldwide, we can curb illicit practices and level the playing field for the common individual and corporations alike.

If we are going to implement the super-rich tax, people think that the money will go directly to the government via the Super-Rich Tax, but that is a fallacy. Once the super-rich tax has become established, the super-rich will allocate the money more to important people within their company. After all, the last thing many entrepreneurs will do is transfer money to the government. Then they would rather give it to people in their own company.

So a fallacy of a lot of people is that people think that because of the super rich tax the money of the super rich goes directly to the government. But because of the super rich tax, the money of the super rich goes first to the working people and only then via the working people to the government.

So the Super Rich Tax will first make the economies healthier and then the economies will make the governments healthier and then the healthier economies and governments will boost all current environmental and poverty measures, so that eventually a balanced harmonious world will emerge.

Moreover, it is now even the case that governments are not rich at all, but almost all go bankrupt. The current public debt needs to be reduced in order to greatly improve public investment in education, environmental protection, health care and infrastructure. In addition, it is of course also the case that we must guard against too much bureaucracy and corruption in governments.

A country can only implement the ‘Super-rich Tax’ if the super-rich cannot easily transfer their wealth to other countries without this tax. In order to avoid economic disadvantages for the first implementing countries, we must create measurable support across the world, so that the world’s major economies can introduce the ‘Super-rich Tax’ at about the same time. That is why the website of this manifesto contains a counter with the number of votes per country, as an indication of the support base per country. With this manifesto we create measurable support for political parties to include the ‘Super-rich Tax’ in their programs. After all, political parties can only do this if they can increase their number of seats or make them more likely to be elected. That something is difficult must not be a reason to refrain from taking the first step. As explained in the book Sapiens of professor Harari “if sufficient people believe in a new story, the story will become a new reality”.

I’m sure it’s not jealousy because I’m totally happy and content. I enjoy life every day and wish all my fellow human beings and all their children the same. I am convinced that if we don’t change anything significant in the world, more and more people will lead unhappy lives.

Some people mistakenly classify the super rich tax as one of the earlier failed constructs like socialism or communism. The super rich tax is not a previously tried construction like socialism or communism. No, the super rich tax is a unique and completely new construction. You can best describe it as circular capitalism with a wealth threshold, where entrepreneurs are still rewarded for their guts, flattery, perseverance and success, but this reward is now capped with a maximum value. After all, it appears that rewards above this maximum value have negative effects on our economies, governments, humanity and environment.

Because we are going to adjust the basic rules of the current world and because many people do not understand that, emotions will sometimes run high. We have to understand that and try to keep the connection as much as possible.

The current rule of the game whereby we only tax income now ensures that people can become rich indefinitely. People with an extreme amount of money have an extreme amount of power, are at the top of the hierarchy and therefore receive an extreme amount of status with many other less wealthy people. Darwin-like experiments show that people at the bottom of the hierarchy unconsciously copy the behavior of people at the very top of the hierarchy. The people at the top of the hierarchy therefore for the most part suffer from delusions of grandeur, which are getting worse and worse.

In fact, the current rule of the game where we only tax income now results in, overpayed people at the top of the hierarchy and underpayed people at the bottom of the hierarchy. And even worse, even though many people at the bottom of the hierarchy are underpaid, they also subconsciously look up to the people at the top of the hierarchy because they have more money, power and status. So we need to make it clear to people that the super-rich phenomenon they are now looking up to is the core problem of our world today. We must therefore make it clear to poor people that the phenomenon of extreme wealth is the cause of their poverty. In addition, we must make it clear to the middle class who also look up to the super rich that more and more people of the middle class will sink into poverty in the future. It therefore also concerns many of the children and grandchildren of parents who now belong to the middle class.

As humanity we ourselves have devised the current rule of the game, whereby we only tax income and not extreme wealth. As a result, there are now a handful of extremely wealthy people on our planet with hugely disastrous consequences for humanity and nature. The extremely rich suck all the money out of us, the working people, and because the health of our economies is mainly determined by the situation of us, the working people, we now have unhealthy economies everywhere that we try to keep going with all kinds of tricks. In addition, all of our current governments are increasingly in debt because our governments are mostly paid by the increasingly poor working people.

And now the good news!

We can easily extend the current rule of the game and tax extreme wealth as well, so that healthy economies and governments emerge almost automatically.

It is actually very simple, all the money should circulate within the largest possible group of people and not within the smallest possible group. Because all the money in the world is now circulating in a smaller and smaller group of people, there are now all unhealthy economies and governments that have to be kept in the air with all kinds of artificial tricks.

Due to the super-rich tax, all the money in the world will circulate in an ever larger and larger group of people, so that our economies and governments become healthy again and we can finally solve poverty and environmental pollution in a structural way.

We are in the first phase of the Super Rich Tax as described in the FREE book that can be downloaded from this website.

In the first phase, the first people become aware of the destructive effects of extreme wealth and vote for this manifesto. In order to grow the number of votes worldwide, we must (1) promote this manifesto through the internet, social media, TV and newspaper, (2) recruit sponsors to expand the website to multiple languages and to set up and pay for Facebook campaigns worldwide, (3) find famous people and influencers to further promote the manifesto and (4) find volunteers who want to help with the above.

As mentioned before, for the other phases see the FREE book that can be downloaded from this website.