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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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Political Humor @politicalhumor9.bsky.social · 15h
In Syracuse, New York protesters chant "Fuck Donald Trump" while surrounding Trump's motorcade and prevented it from moving. 😂
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Not sure what’s more pronounced here, the abject racism or the absolute projection. Donald Trump is mentally ill and should be removed from public office. He ain’t right folks!
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The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 10h
Quite seriously the man is mentally ill. Of any other ‘world leader’ spoke like this they would be committed to a psych institution.
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SomeBody @kevin-on-earth.bsky.social · 10h
#Jan6 was #Treason. Period. 🤷
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SomeBody @kevin-on-earth.bsky.social · 10h
And teachers. 😉 It's not them either.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 16h
Justin Flom used a shower enclosure covered with a special lenticular lens to make his wife invisible. [📹 Justin Flom] Repost of @gazetory: Original post
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SomeBody @kevin-on-earth.bsky.social · 11h
They can sanction all they like. There will always be an #ICC of some kind. And Rubio, Trump, Hegseth et al are Guilty.
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SomeBody @kevin-on-earth.bsky.social · 11h
Next big idea: Compostable bicycles. No? 🤔
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SomeBody @kevin-on-earth.bsky.social · 11h
I know people with ideas that would put Musk at the back of the class. But they don't have #Money up front. (Or the BS level of bravado that comes with it!) That's all it is.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 15h
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
popularresistance.org/october-10-p...
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October 10: People's Tribunal On US Government Complicity In Gaza - PopularResistance.Org
The October 10 People's Tribunal on US Government Complicity in Gaza is a collaboration of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom US, Veterans For Peace, AFSC, and a Palestinian advisory committee. As the date approaches, organizers have been preparing key questions that the legal team and witnesses will examine during the tribunal. There are many ways you can join the tribunal: in Seattle, at a local watch event, and by livestream from your home or mobile device. The event goes from 10am to 5pm Pacific Time.
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Christopher Young @christopher61.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This needs shared and discussed! WTF
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SomeBody @kevin-on-earth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
#TraitorTrump is amputating America's legs to treat its arms which he has already leprosied! And 120 #Minab schoolchildren will not have a Nuclear Weapon. As for Russia's diesel refineries, if I worked there I'd be getting out ASAP as Ukraine reprograms its drones. 🤔
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SomeBody @kevin-on-earth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Time to DISMANTLE AMERICA, PIECE BY PIECE, until the #ICC & THE REST OF THE WORLD are threatened no longer.
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SomeBody @kevin-on-earth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Who is this "Elon Musk" guy? 🤷
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They still finding how to Blame Joe Biden.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This should be made into an ad and run non-stop on every channel until the election is over.
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SomeBody @kevin-on-earth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
In practice, that means what? What ACTION have they taken? #ICC
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
You see in the Media outrage that a Political Party would dare stand against Israel. But no outrage at all for all the other parties who refuse to acknowledge a Genocide and in fact support it. The whole corrupt 'British' Media establishment belongs to Israel.
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SomeBody @kevin-on-earth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yep. The send him to Iran to be tried for his part in the gratuitous, unprovoked murder of 1000s of Iranians including 100s of children.
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SomeBody @kevin-on-earth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
#ManCity manager #Maresca says his players are fine & calm under the furore of City's Guilty verdicts in ALL their 100+ financial irregularities. It is more likely the REST of the PL's players that will be not so calm & feeling they've been cheated for years. City should ALREADY be OUT of the PL.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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SomeBody @kevin-on-earth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Makes you wonder, whatever happened to "A good man with a gun"*? Or a MILLION good men/women/people even! 😡 *This is a metaphor for MASS communal strength.
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SomeBody @kevin-on-earth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Kinda coincidental & significant that #Pillay happened to be in #Nuremberg when she got the news. 😏 Trump no doubt missed it by a whisker. 😁 But now he'll *surely* return *his* own #Nobel (given to him by his Venezuelan puppet/sycophant). Surely? No? 🤔 #TheHague #ICC
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SomeBody @kevin-on-earth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
#Voting is the BEST WAY to bring Trump's #TERRORISM to a STOP! Anyone feeling intimidated should rally up friends & family to go & #Vote as a GROUP. If the intimidation keeps you AWAY from the ballot box & he wins, he'll have another 2 YEARS to come & get you ANYWAY.
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SomeBody @kevin-on-earth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Haha! They're ALL out now campaigning for the Democrats in the #midterms! 😁
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S.E. Danesti @seedanesti.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The President of the United States is a traitor and a rapist.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Russia has been banned from International Football for 4.5 years. Israel who are committing Genocide hasn't been banned for 1 second. Ban Israel.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Absolutely 👇
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SomeBody @kevin-on-earth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
So, will English regulators apply similar proportional punishment v. #ManCity? This was only a €10m shortfall, for 2025-26 & 2026-27 (their debts are now €13m), and no trophies won in that time. 🤔
From aljazeera.com - 
Six-time French champions Bordeaux, sanctioned in the summer for financial irregularities, will play in the sixth tier of French football this season, the Nouvelle-Aquitaine league confirmed on Thursday.

Bordeaux were sanctioned for failing to provide the roughly 10 million euros ($11.6m) needed for the 2025-26 and 2026-27 financial years and to meet debt payments.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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SomeBody @kevin-on-earth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is like going to the supermarket, spending half an hour filling your caddy then arriving at the till & being told the till is shut & you need to subscribe before you can buy. Not good. Surprising & insulting from @mistralai.bsky.social.
Vibe page (from Mistral): "Ask anything" (before you get sent to a Sign-up" page).Mistral-Vibe sign-up page, set to from their "Ask anything" prompt space.
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SomeBody @kevin-on-earth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I call on @andyburnham.bsky.social & @labouruk.bsky.social to recognise that #Zionism is #Racism & stop pandering to #Zionist #GENOCIDE, MASS #INFANTICIDE, #EthnicCleansing, #Apartheid & #Occupation! www.bbc.com/news/live/cq...
On BBC: Burnham calls on Polanski to reverse Green Party's Zionism motion
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SomeBody @kevin-on-earth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
#AI imitation of existing copyrighted work should be paid for under specific licence from the owner. @davidrevoy.com @europarl.bsky.social www.davidrevoy.com/article1178/...
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License update: AI derivation prohibited on all my art, lore, stories, and comics.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I approve this message 👇
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SomeBody @kevin-on-earth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The voting is over but the #Greenbashing continues at the #BBC & other UK MSM, with the Greens apparently now "eating themselves alive" & have "created a monster" according to the BBC. 😜 Strong shades of #Corbyn -bashing again as they continue to support & protect the #genocide of Palestinians.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Absolutely 👇 This.......
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SomeBody @kevin-on-earth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What will it take for a French 1789 in the US? 🤔
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 07/10/2026
Yes, when it comes to UBI, it's about understanding it as power to the People to say No, where it's a fight we must have and win, to make sure we create a floor underneath everyone to protect everyone financially, and where as a dividend we make sure that everyone benefits financially.
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Richard, Toad the Just, Earl of Sausagetoad 🇬🇧 🇺🇸🌊 @richardlordtoad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
They all knew, but sucked-up anyway...
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mariaevajarrous.bsky.social @mariaevajarrous.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
He looks like a rabid overweight, hyena crossed with a javelina on garbage day
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Dave Against The Machine🏴 @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Israel is a genocidal apartheid state, and you are justified in criticizing it today and every other day for being a genocidal apartheid state. Israel does not have a right to exist. I don’t care if that hurts your feelings.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Impeach his ass too 👇
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Rita McRedLight @ritamcredlight.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Neither Schumer nor Jeffries has said one word about removing this immoral criminal administration. They probably wouldn't like having Performance Objectives like any other employee with a review before the next election either. To add: #AIPAC to register with #FARA. Neuter Fox News.
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KevinOnEarth @quantillion.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
Just heard on @newstalkfm radio: "Smokers are a dying breed". :blobnerd:
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SomeBody @kevin-on-earth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Believe me, #Jan6 is NOTHING compared to what's coming within a month from now!
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SomeBody @kevin-on-earth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
👍ANYTHING LESS will prove that the Dems are just as #corrupt as the GOP. Day2: Scrap #CitizensUnited. Prohibit ALL private/corporate funding of politicians & political campaigning. Prohibit ALL self-enrichment while in office (& 5 years afterwards). Recoup ALL previous personal enrichment.
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SomeBody @kevin-on-earth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Why not Guatemala? 🤷
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Piers Morgan “Mohammed, do you condemn the Hamas attacks on October the 7th?” Mohammed Hijab “Yes, I do. Do you condemn Israel killing over 1000 kids?” Piers Morgan “I believe Israel has a right to defend themselves” That answer should be on the tombstone of his career.
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