The Human Capacity March 2020: a Property Growth Tax
The first issue of "The human capacity" - magazine for imagination - delves into the new book by Thomas Piketty "Capital and ideology" that was published in Dutch this month. In the last chapter, the writer gives a political outline of the innovations needed to reduce inequality in Europe. The contours of this sketch are further elaborated in a manifesto co-written by Thomas Piketty and published on the website www.tdem.eu. More than 100,000 people have now expressed their support by signing the manifesto. It is unclear whether this manifesto will also be continued in the form of a new social movement or a political party. The manifesto consists of two parts: a new treaty of Europe and a new budget and taxes for Europe. The new treaty states that the participating countries of Europe, not necessarily all EU Member States, will form a new European Assembly, alongside the European Parliament, which will include national parliamentarians. The meeting will receive a n...