Tax the Wrinkles
Tax the Wrinkles!
Remember the "Eat the Rich" movement (and Aerosmith song)? It can be traced back to the original "Quand les pauvres nauront plus rien a manger, ils mangeront le riche" by Rousseau (Gawd the things you pick up from studying for an MBA)
Well there's a suggestion being well received to introduce asymmetric taxation whereby older people will be required to be taxed at a higher rate because of the costs resulting from the Chinese Plague because younger people need to keep more of their income and we're more likely to be more seriously affected by this monster.
And it's being pushed by a professor at Oxford and beng very well taken up all over the place.
From The Brussels Times :-
"Young people benefit the least from the lockdown measures, because they are less susceptible to the virus,” economist and professor Jan-Emmanuel De Neve told Belgian news channel VRT on Thursday. “The older generation should realize that young people are sacrificing themselves, both economically and in terms of mental health.”
https://www.brusselstimes.com/econom...ort-the-young/
Bloody cheek. WE own the air they breathe.