Wealth tax

evaluating relocating his primary residence outside California and that steps toward any such relocation, including any listing of his residential real estate in California on the market, would be public and inevitably noted and commented upon by company employees and, accordingly, raise questions for management of the company going forward,

— Mark Zuckerberg, in Meta's regulatory filing about his consideration of relocating his primary residence outside California due to the wealth tax.

Families with children can, with our reform, by 2028 have more than €600 more in their pockets per year than today. That is something no one should downplay.

— Lars Klingbeil (SPD), Federal Finance Minister, said before departing from North Carolina, USA

California billionaire Sergey Brin would rather spend $100 million to fund a shady opposition campaign than simply pay his fair share in taxes so millions of Californians don’t lose their healthcare. That’s shameful. Billionaires already pay much lower tax rates than what working families pay out of every paycheck,

— SEIU-UHW Vice President Debru Carthan said in a statement.

California billionaire Sergey Brin would rather spend $100 million to fund a shady opposition campaign than simply pay his fair share in taxes so millions of Californians don’t lose their healthcare.

— Debru Carthan, vice president of SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West, in a statement

Paying your fair share is a basic British value, but so many ordinary people are already paying more than they can afford. Our richest people can do more and most want to. To live up to our national values our new government must raise taxes on extreme levels of wealth for a fairer, better, more hopeful Britain.

— Gary Lineker, commenting on taxation and wealth inequality

to knowingly tolerate the complete overload of our practices

— Markus Blumenthal-Beier, chairman of the General Practitioners' Association, told RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland

Germany will feel it: something is moving. Germany is moving forward.

— Friedrich Merz, CDU/CSU politician, at the press conference following the coalition summit

The world will get its first trillionaire while Americans across the country are scraping together every dollar to save for retirement.

— Elizabeth Warren, Democratic Senator