FAQ

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 normal people, and because the health of our economies is mainly determined by the situation of us, the normal 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 normal 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.

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”.

If we are going to implement the super-rich tax, people think that we are doing it mainly to levy more tax for the governments. But that’s not the main effect of the super-rich tax. The most important effect of the super-rich tax is the effect that the super-rich then give the money more to their own employees because they prefer to give the money to their own employees than through taxes to the government. In the long term, wealth-capped economies via the Super-Rich Tax therefore automatically creates a new fair distribution of wealth.

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.

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.

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.

We are in the first phase of the Super-Rich Tax as described in the last chapter in the manifesto page. 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. For the other phases, see the last chapter on the manifesto page.