Lütke declared that voting rights should be stripped from those whom he termed “dependents”—based on their payment of income tax. This would disenfranchise wide swaths of workers on low wages, elderly pensioners, the unemployed, students and the infirm.

Social media comments by Tobias Lütke, the right-wing CEO of the Canadian online shopping site Shopify, in which the multi-billionaire attacks universal suffrage have been met with outrage in Canada and internationally.

Lütke declared that voting rights should be stripped from those whom he termed “dependents”—based on their payment of income tax. This would disenfranchise wide swathes of workers on low wages, elderly pensioners, the unemployed, students and the infirm. These proposals were met with support from within the Canadian capitalist oligarchy and international financial elite, including from the fascist Elon Musk.

  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
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    17 days ago

    thats how it works. people only do not pay taxes in relation to what they get because of wealth disparity. once you have captured enough wealth say that those without wealth should have no say. happening in the us to.