Taking Gated Communities and Gentrification to A Whole New Level
June 22nd, 2009 by SocProf and tagged Economy, Social Discrimination, Social Exclusion, Social Inequalities, Social Privileges, Social Stratification
How about an entire canton?
Zygmunt Bauman noted previously that it is an obvious trend for the super-rich to voluntarily segregate themselves from the rest of the population and live in their own quasi-country (Richistan) and operating on a very different market for goods and services than the rest of us do (therefore, cutting their taxes does not generate an economic jumpstart).
One has to love the logic of this canton official:
Hey, maybe California could adopt a system like that statewide: become the rich folks state and only accept people whose wealth will generate money even on these low (and capped) rates. But it is nice to see the absurd consequences of a race to the bottom in terms of taxes.
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