Amazon saved children’s voices recorded by Alexa even after parents asked for it to be deleted. Now it’s paying a $25 million fine.::“For too long, Amazon has treated children’s sensitive data as its own property,” Josh Golin, executive director of Fairplay, said in a statement.
Fines like this should be calculated based on % of corporations net assets. Something like this, say 5-10%. That would at least get their attention.
Same with personal fines honestly, percentage of income or total wealth, depending on the crime.
Definitely should be based on current net worth of assets, else someone who just lives off borrowings against assets pays nothing as they have no or little income when compared to their total.
Or just count loans as income for tax reasons.
This could get iffy unless well defined. Else when people take out a loan for a house suddenly they have hundreds of thousands in income, which they would then need to pay tax on again when they earn money to pay it back.
You don’t generally pay taxes paying a loan back.
What they do is take out more loans- specifically, on the increase of value their capital had.
You do pay taxes on the sale of the house when that comes, however, in proportion to the capital gains from its sale.
It wouldn’t be hard to carve out an exception for loans under a certain value (possibly, a net cap on total loans. Or some combination there of.) and then exclude mortgages under an appropriate limit, however
Yeah that’s my thinking. Gotta define what cash from loans is taxable.
What I mean by paying tax on paying it back: you had to earn that money, typically from income, which is taxed. So if you had to pay tax on your original loan you would get taxed twice.
But yeah, as long as it’s well-defined, might be a good choice.
I’m sure the billionaires will line the correct pockets to get out of it in any country, though :(
