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Thiel moves family to Milei's libertarian Argentina

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Re: Thiel moves family to Milei's libertarian Argentina

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post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He is a profound believer in the absolute freedom of the individual, provided that specific individual is him, and perhaps three of his closest friends.

thiel doesn't have friends he has assets or challenges.

Bet he has his family in a CRM and thinks of them as P&L!

Re: Thiel moves family to Milei's libertarian Argentina

#92
post #70
post #58

But I thought they were making America great

It’s done, it’s great, fantastic and even unparalleled. Thiel is gonna do the same with Argentina, the acronym even remains the same so the China-made hats can be reused.

Damn, Australia and Austria are next

Re: Thiel moves family to Milei's libertarian Argentina

#93
post #92
post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s done, it’s great, fantastic and even unparalleled. Thiel is gonna do the same with Argentina, the acronym even remains the same so the China-made hats can be reused.

Damn, Australia and Austria are next

My perception is that these 2 are already great countries :)

Re: Thiel moves family to Milei's libertarian Argentina

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As a New Zealander, I'd like to hope he 'did nothing' to get that citizenship, but I'm afraid it probably wasn't nothing.

many countries offer the Investment Visa option. Canada does, as do places like NZ: > New Zealand offers the Active Investor Plus Visa, which requires a minimum investment of NZD $5 million for the Growth category or NZD $10 million for the Balanced category. This visa allows investors to live, work, and study in New Zealand, with pathways to permanent residency after maintaining the investment for the required perio…

Yeah, but Peter Thiel skipped the line for his NZ citizenship:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/334094/us-billionaire-sp...

Re: Thiel moves family to Milei's libertarian Argentina

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post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The longer we go without a wealth tax the more we're allowing ourselves to be raided

The billionaires can’t handle “losing” money to taxes so they’d just never come here. Whether that would prevent the raid or enable it remains to he seen.

Until they piss off people there too and wealth taxes are adopted there as well. The less havens they have the better

Besides, the proposed wealth tax specifically includes provisions to capture billionaires attempting to flee state taxes

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