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A jarring portrait of a deeply unequal Canada and how a wealth tax could rein in the destructive power wielded by today's billionaires.
As the ultra-wealthy siphon off an ever-larger share of the world's wealth, they now dominate us to a degree unimaginable even a decade ago. With their voracious consumption, unbridled resource exploitation, and relentless obstruction of climate action, they are rapidly undermining democracy and destroying the very viability of the earth for human life.
Their staggering power and hoarding of wealth have prompted a number of G20 nations to consider imposing a wealth tax, aimed exclusively at the super-rich. In Canada, such a tax would apply only to those with wealth above $25 million. Yet it could collect $40 billion a year — funding public programs that could immensely improve the lives of millions of Canadians while clipping the wings of the super-rich.
Billionaires would threaten to depart. But as they left the country that had nourished them and enabled them to grow so wildly rich, they'd face a hefty "exit tax" on the way out.
Yes, change is possible.
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Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us
The Urgent Case for a Wealth Tax
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The Urgent Case for a Wealth Tax
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- One: The Myth of the Benign Billionaire
- Two: Billionaires and Climate Catastrophe
- Three: The Patrician
- Four: The Self-Made Man
- Five: The Hedge Fund
- Six: Philanthropy and the Surprising Indifference of the Rich Towards the Poor
- Seven: More on the Philanthropy Scam
- Eight: What Billionaires Can Learn from Finland
- Nine: The Urgent Case for a Wealth Tax, Once More with Feeling
- Acknowledgements
- Appendix: Canadian Billionaires
- Notes
- Index
- About the Authors
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