alt Hacker NewsI'm skeptical. It will be cheaper to hire a couple security guards and buy a couple armoured cars then turn away profits.
The reaction was short lived while the insurance companies figured out how to bolster security and return to the usual.
Look at what's happening in California with the proposed wealth tax.
>Page’s co-founder, Sergey Brin, has poured at least $45 million into the Building a Better California Super PAC specifically dedicated to blocking the tax
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>It will be cheaper to hire a couple security guards and buy a couple armoured cars
This is still a possitive outcome brought from the presence of a threat to their lives. Not as positive as the healthcare thing, but it's still jobs and a "tax" in that they are forced to purchase the vehicles which do have to be built and driven by someone not in their tax bracket.
So I think the wealth tax is different.
The reason more CEOs getting shot might make a difference is that many CEOs care about status and being able to mention it in the right places. Historically many people love it so much that they call themselves CEOs and Presidents of companies that are small businesses.
If these same people can no longer be open about their role and status, which they value, there will be some kind of change. I'm not sure what it is, but security guards don't restore their freedom to feel thoughtless about their role and lifestyle.
Whereas with taxes... Maybe some people brag about dodging them or their suspect filings that get them big refunds. But they're mostly not public and not tied to identity the same way. And even the wealth tax isn't remotely the same as the public being vocal at large.
For it to be comparable we'd have to have modern highwaymen and Robin Hoods somehow stripping the wealth, not the tax man.
Because the weight of any changes or perceived need to change come from the social burden that public violence would create in the shooting case.
And that doesn't seem to exist near at all with the wealth tax.