Will we cement inequality and jeopardize our democracy, or will we take action? Martyna Linartas advocates for a radical tax reform.
In few Western countries is wealth as unevenly distributed as in Germany. The gap continues to widen due to rising rents and food prices, the fact that delivery workers contribute a larger percentage of their income in taxes than billionaires, and the continuous reduction in wealth taxes while the rich keep getting richer. This injustice is societal dynamite. Wealth through hard work? Almost impossible. The idea that everyone is the architect of their own fortune? Only in fairy tales. Germany has become a society where wealth remains within families.
In her insightful and well-founded analysis, Martyna Linartas tackles the political taboo of our time: our failure to tax the rich jeopardizes our prosperity, environment, and democracy. Drawing from exclusive interviews with powerful economic elites about inequality and the interplay between economics and politics, she outlines how taxing the ultra-wealthy could work and provides all the arguments we need to take action now.
