“We are very proud of this! We are nobodies, we have no money, nothing!” Tommaso Cacciari, from a group calling itself No Space for Bezos, told the BBC.
“We’re just citizens who started organising and we managed to move one of the most powerful people in the world - all the billionaires - out of the city.”
The wedding kicks off later this week, and has a star-studded guest list of the rich and famous that is rumoured to include Kim Kardashian, Mick Jagger and Leonardo diCaprio, as well as several of the Trumps.
They can have their wedding in one of their beloved tax havens, not in some crumbling city that should be preserved as well as possible.
Doesn’t Venice take a tax for each visitor? They should up this as much as possible. If you really want to go there you can pay a 100+ euros.
Don’t get me started on cruise ships and the clientele on there.
Tax based on yearly income of the individual. Even with the creative accounting these shits do, it will still dwarf what normal people make.
100+ euros? Lets say its 200€ each. And lets say Jeffy B has 2000 guests. So he has to pay 400.000€ in taxes. You know how long he has to do nothing to earn 400k? 100 Seconds. That’s not even 2 minutes where he earns as much as we pay for a home.
Indeed, they do have a tax. But it’s essentially a tourist trap / tourist heaven now, a giant partying hub with few notable events that appeal to the ‘haute culture’ that, somehow, feels consumeristic in nature.