The lawmakers drew a line that favours the rich. When you have companies making millions paying more in taxes than the common folk who barely scrape by. The lawmakers do it because of the rich lobbying them. Something the most people don't have the money for.
For sure everyone does their best to minimise the taxes they pay, but when you are the richest person in the world with some $200 billion, maybe you should be doing silly schemes like charity for tax avoidance.
Heck I tend to minimise my taxes, but often I don't even have such opportunity. The best I can do right now is contribute to my pensions. I'm on a current tax rate of around 50%. Outside that, there's not a lot I can do to minimise the tax I pay. Compare that the rich, who through their lobbying, and their schemes have paid an effective tax rate of around 3% over 5 years.
My statement is ridiculous to the rich, not so much to the rest of the population.
Well, the bridge is designed in a way that allows it to be easily and safely dismantled.
The 2017 government promised to not dismantle it anymore, but 2022 government seems to disagree. The important part we're missing are the risk assessments from engineers involved in the project.
As far as I understand from reading the news, the 2017 promise was mostly given because at that time the local government had left the bridge covered in scaffolding for an excessively long time.
Apparently the bridge was redesigned and to be brought back in its old state (its a monument) was also made to be deconstructed. The previous version of the bridge was able to let ships through. Or so I heard.
And to think, he could have lobbied to change laws to pay a share of taxes that poor folks would think are fair, given money to feed people, paid for vaccines in poor countries, and a slew of other things that would likely support businesses and add to GDP in various places, but no.
Instead he's buying an obscene super-yacht - which probably has its own regular yacht and a few other ships that come with it - and dismantling a bridge to get it into the water. It is more obscene considering he could likely do all of this stuff without, you know, becoming poor - but it is only the really helpful stuff that isn't getting done.
