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G21-P056 Éliminer l'extrême richesse par l'impôt progressif
Auteur
Atul Bahl
Proposition
Le PVC plaidera en faveur d'une augmentation des taux d'imposition pour les tranches de revenus les plus élevées, d'un impôt sur la fortune et les successions fort et progressif sur la valeur nette et les successions supérieures à 10 millions de dollars et de 100 % sur la fortune et les successions au-delà d'un certain plafond et d'une imposition des revenus du capital à un taux égal à celui des revenus du travail.
Objectif
Réduire la concentration des richesses et les inégalités au Canada et, par conséquent, protéger et renforcer la démocratie canadienne.
Avantage
L'extrême richesse menace la démocratie. Les ultra-riches ont les moyens de faire plier les systèmes politiques et juridiques et les médias d'entreprise à leur volonté. Pour éviter cela et créer les conditions dans lesquelles la démocratie peut s'épanouir, nous devons réduire considérablement la concentration des richesses entre les mains d'une minorité.
Commentaires d’appui de l’auteur.e
1. From the late 1930s to the early 1970s, the top marginal tax rate in Canada exceeded 70% and, for some years during that period, it exceeded 90%. See: How Much Income Tax Could Canada’s 1% Pay?, October 2015. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives: https://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/National%20Office/2015/10/How_Much_Tax_Could_Canadas_Top_1_Pay.pdf.
2. See Wetiko: On Capitalism, Mind Viruses, and Antidotes for a World in Transition:
3. Capital and Ideology, Thomas Piketty.
4. Canada’s top billionaires are $37 billion richer since start of the pandemic, September 16, 2020. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives:
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/newsroom/news-releases/billionaires-wealth-pandemic
5. Growing wealth inequality 'dangerous' threat to democracy: experts, April 15, 2016, Reuters:
https://ca.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0XC1Q2.
6. Wealth Tax? Canadians like the idea. November 19, 2020, Abacus Data:
https://abacusdata.ca/wealth-tax-canada-poll/.
Valeur(s) Vertes
Sagesse écologique, Justice sociale, Démocratie participative, Non-violence, Développement durable, Respect de la diversité
Lien avec la politique actuelle
Ajouter aux politiques actuelles du PVC. G18-P021 - Éliminer l'utilisation des paradis fiscaux, G14-P02 - Taxe sur les transactions boursières à haute fréquence, G10-p23 - Taxe Robin des Bois, et G08-p026 - Taxe Tobin pour augmenter l'aide étrangère.
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Amendements (1)
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The reason this proposal was categorized yellow was that it overlaps with the one that I crafted earlier (https://www.greenparty.ca/en/convention-2021/voting/proposals/g21-p057). This one was put forward by Atul Bahl (actually Dimitri Lascaris under Bahl's name). The only difference between the two is that Bahl took my proposal and added specific thresholds for when wealth and inheritance taxes would kick in (above $10 million), and set a 100% tax rate on inheritance and incomes above a 'certain cap'.
The reason we are in this situation is that after writing my proposal, one of Dimitri's followers suggested that I invite him to sign on as a supporter. He suggested the above-described amendments, which I rejected because setting specifics like that is not good policy-making. In response, rather than putting his changes forward as an (unfriendly) amendment, Dimitri copied my proposal, added in his desired amendments, and put it forward as a separate amendment. Both proposals received more than enough support to likely pass.
I think the best way forward is to have my proposal stand as-is, and remove the substance of my proposal from Bahl's, leaving behind the calls for a specific threshold when wealth and inheritance taxes kick in, and the call for 100% taxes on wealth and inheritance above a certain cap. I think it is important for the membership to consider if they really want to tie the hands of future Green MPs with a specific number, and if they really want a 100% tax on income and wealth and inheritance - this would mean, of course, if you or your inheritors are fractionally below that certain cap, you retain a tiny portion of your income or the estate; at or above it and you receive nothing. I fear that these implications have not been considered because there has been very little workshopping of proposals this time around.
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