European Commission's Wealth Confiscation Plans
So the European Commission just quietly published a 500-page report where they
explicitly revealed their plans to start freezing bank
accounts. They even talked about executing an
overnight
50% confiscation of people's wealth, and they even told us which
countries are gonna be affected first.
Let's dive straight into some of the quotes from the report so you guys can see
it
for yourselves. We can see buried on page 79 of
volume one of this report, they said the spread of
artificial intelligence should be exploited to
reduce taxpayers' opportunity for tax evasion.
But it's nothing compared to this quote they've got buried on page
53. We can see that they have this little
table showing
us how effective these one-off capital
levies have been previously. A one-off capital levy,
this is kind of like an overnight wealth confiscation
event. So this is a type of event where you wake
up and the government says,
"Oh, you have $100,000 in your bank account.
Now you only have $50,000 because we took 50%." And we
can see they showed us how successful these one-off capital levies have
been previously. They have a table, and they point to
Germany and how they implemented a 50%
one-off capital levy in 1949, which
ended up giving the German government 60% of the
country's GDP in a wealth gain. We can also see that
they pointed to Japan, and they showed how they were able to
execute a one-off capital levy that ranged between
10% to 90%. That means some business owners
and homeowners had to give the government 90% of the
assets, which is, again, it's insane, but it's not nearly as
insane as what the European Commission said after they showed us
this data. They actually had the audacity to say
this. "If there are indeed one-off capital
levies,
and if these are not anticipated by the taxpayers, then the
taxpayers won't have the time to respond and
avoid the tax." This is absolutely insane, but
it's not nearly as interesting as the next quote.
So buried in page 308 of volume one of this
report, the European Commission went on to say,
"Very wealthy
individuals do not contribute their fair share to the financing of
European welfare states. The use of wealth-related
taxes could be intensified to counter
wealth inequality." Now, that word intensified is something
I want you to keep in the back of your mind throughout today's deep dive because
it
is true that on average, Europeans typically pay their
governments around 50% per year in taxes.
But the talk of one-off capital levies, exit
taxes, and net wealth taxes, this is going to be the
next step that I think is gonna come at us much quicker than
most people think because if you've been listening to what Christine
Lagarde's been
saying recently-
It is thus essential to swiftly adopt the regulation
on the establishment of the digital euro
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