I agree. That would be far far left in Finnish politics too. And Finnish politics are more leftist than Democrats would implement in US (even if a rightist party is in power here ) I mean the most leftist idea I have heard here is paying somekind of "national salary" to everyone which could be as high as 500-1000 dollars a month. Every citizen would get thisOriginally Posted by stevENTj
just by being citizens. Then everyone can earn what ever they want on top of that. I have never heard anyone talking about caps or top limits to income. Usually leftist here means supporting the poor not making it impossible to get rich. Although the progressive income tax which we have in practice works as a soft income cap. You can still get rich because investments are taxed lower than salary and investment tax is not progressive. So whatever you earn in e.g. the stock market or real estate market is taxed similarly for rich and poor and the tax is relatively low. Just put your salary back to market and you get rich. Getting rich only by working is harder because after certain salaries the tax progression raises rapidly.