> If you're a smart, ambitious person who wants to work hard and advance your lot in life, are you really going to stay in Spain knowing that the government is going to take half of everything incremental thing you do?
I'm smart (anecdotal, but still) and ambitious, and I moved to Spain, and I'm planning to stay here, yeah. Yes, I'm OK with the government taking the excess profits us "rich" people earn so others who cannot work still can survive and even get health-care, like the rest of us.
> This is basically inviting your best and brightest to move to the US and other low tax countries.
If that leads to all the soulless money-chasers move to the US, then that sounds like a positive to me. I prefer a society where everyone gets equal chance and a good life, regardless of income, and the ones who want to ruin that can continue to build their utopia in the US.
I'm smart (anecdotal, but still) and ambitious, and I moved to Spain, and I'm planning to stay here, yeah. Yes, I'm OK with the government taking the excess profits us "rich" people earn so others who cannot work still can survive and even get health-care, like the rest of us.
> This is basically inviting your best and brightest to move to the US and other low tax countries.
If that leads to all the soulless money-chasers move to the US, then that sounds like a positive to me. I prefer a society where everyone gets equal chance and a good life, regardless of income, and the ones who want to ruin that can continue to build their utopia in the US.