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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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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

given Annie Andrews' recent anti-trans ad, gonna re-up this recent essay/🧵:

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IllyLily (Formerly OccupyWalrus13) @occupywalrus13.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I started hormones last week, and this week I started seeing a new psych nurse and got my official diagnosis for Autism and ADHD!

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026

welp

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Hold Me Closer, Giant Dancers @giantdancers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Capcom isn't replacing real people with ai, they are only replacing QA engineers with AI" fuck you, fuck Capcom, and Fuck AI.

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IllyLily (Formerly OccupyWalrus13) @occupywalrus13.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I get to start on hormones tomorrow!!!!!! I'm so excited and nervous

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IllyLily (Formerly OccupyWalrus13) @occupywalrus13.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I love her news, but I hate it's about my state and my fucking horrible representative!!!

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/09/2026

Our latest story. Like this is the entire Democratic Party of Ohio. There's reason for concern here. bsky.app/profile/erin...

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Bullwark @bullwark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What would have happened if Charlie Kirk ended up being full of Candy instead

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Marquis @resurrectedmarquis.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Remembering how Jason DeMarco, one of Lazzo's buddies, bragged in a podcast about always flying to Japan on first class while drinking 4 bottles of tequila. Which made me genuinely hate him when thinking about this tweet below.

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Andy “voice of Brak” Merrill. 🎅🏻🤡🐒💩 @amerrill2.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

So great to see. You can also hear Dave Willis directing him.

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brad will NOT take off the cursed amulet @bradicality.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We love it don't we folks

deep-fried, low-poly cartoon characters (from Pop'n Music) with overlaid text where a cigarette smoking punk says "Trump molests the economy" and "Trump molests the economy and it explodes," paired with a confused, crying child character reacting with "what" to each statement

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Kelly Gregory @kellygregory.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Different take: I’m going to die much earlier than I should because I didn’t have access to care and my breast cancer wasn’t caught until I was months from death. I started my activism writing an open letter to the TN GOV, hoping to be the last TN to die an unnecessary death. Pass ACA expansion.

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: Zorak the Lone Locust of the Apocalypse will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran. (Brak says he'll do it, though.)

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Andy “voice of Brak” Merrill. 🎅🏻🤡🐒💩 @amerrill2.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Yeah, I think I hated Ed Sheeran before everyone else did. When he would come onto the radio, I’d actively switch stations. Ed Sheeran has always sucked.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If I were in Texas I would grudgingly vote for Talarico, even though he's proven himself to be a cowardly little shit. But I also sure wouldn't lecture trans people on being justifiably mad about him being a cowardly little shit

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Kally the Nephilim @kallycutie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

When you see a politician throwing a minority under the bus, or using them as a scapegoat, remember that if they will do that to them, they will do it to you, it's just a matter of convenience. Either they stand up for all of us, or they will sell out each of us, one at a time.

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Bullwark @bullwark.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Buzz lighthyear 9/11 meme but buzz face replaced with Charlie kirk

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Andy “voice of Brak” Merrill. 🎅🏻🤡🐒💩 @amerrill2.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

There it is, folks! It’s me dressed as Space Ghost eating a full hot dog!

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

i get it, pets get out, it’s horrifying and stressful, i’ve seen the flyers, but if you are deliberately turning your cat loose you can’t be mad at him for investigating whether someone else has better treats for him than you do!

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 24/08/2026

💢 The “anti-Netanyahu” says there will be no Palestinian state under him either Gadi Eisenkot, the former Israeli military chief of staff now leading in polls to unseat Netanyahu in the Oct. 27 election, declared there will be no Palestinian state under a gov't he forms. “There is no Palestinian...

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

violently cut off a guy on the sidewalk to get a picture of this

el especialito case that’s tagged with ‘fuck comunist mandani’ (all errors sic)

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Are we just supposed to ignore the fact that The Ghoul in Fallout got himself in trouble by doing ads for Vault Tech and now the actor who plays the Ghoul, Walt Goggins, is doing ads for WalMart? DID YOU NOT READ THE SCRIPT, WALT? THIS DOESN'T END WELL FOR YOU OR US.

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Chris Ferdinandi @cferdinandi.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

That thing where you say something and mean it literally but folks used to “reading between the lines” insist there’s some implied meaning there and therefore YOU miscommunicated by being direct. #adhd #audhd

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Bullwark @bullwark.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Yes? Don't vote for people who want to commit mass murder dummy

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

danced up to my husband in the convenience store while singing ‘i am pissing and shitting, i’m pissing and shitting myself’ to the tune of bat out of hell…wasn’t him. different guy entirely. no matter,

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 07/08/2026

Please don't blame Fetterman's racism on his stroke. He held a Black man at gunpoint for no reason long before that happened. Lots of people with strokes don't become genocidal monsters. He's just a racist asshole who also had a stroke.

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ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

1 year ago, HBO Max removed all of Cartoon Network’s classic shows from its streaming library. Most of those titles are now available to stream on platforms like Tubi and Hulu.

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Jason, ex Inferis @benedictsred.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

It’s infuriating that Waldo is always smiling and waving when you find him. Bitch, I been looking for you for two hours

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

You can never just move on from this, even after he's gone. Without punishment and ostracism for everyone who has participated in his crime spree over the last 18 months you can forget it- we're all just treading water until the next tyrant

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tim dewey @tjdfotographist.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

BREAKING: Haley Stevens has eaten Jimothy; “The love you all had for this creature now flows to me!!!”

Artist’s rendering of MI Rep. Haley Stevens eating Jimothy the Raccoon.

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

To be very clear, extrajudiciously killing people you suspect are drug traffickers is *also* murder

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Adahop ⛩ 神の道 @adahop.com · 04/08/2026

(I used the 800x600 copy of the photo from 2009 on my FB profile to make this. I'll leave it here.)

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Wow, he blocked me less than a min after I posted this. I'm not normally one to do the "HE BLOCKED ME, MUST BE A POS", but if you're response to trans ppl calling you out is to mass block them, that's a deeply childish and anti-self-reflective. IM SUCH A GREAT TRANS ALLY, LET ME BLOCK TRANS WOMEN.

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Jane @jane.meangirls.online · 02/08/2026

pretty much exactly how khive talks about El-Sayed

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spooky acabdriver @acabdriver.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

You're talking about James Carville on CNN. I'm watching Tales from the Crypt on tubi. We are not th— actually we're pretty similar

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Annie💀 @anniemay.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

1.1% of the country is muslim 1% of the country is trans both have double the poverty rate of the average american apparently these 1% can take over the entire country but the 1% that holds ~37% of the total wealth aren't doing anything worth looking into

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

i wrote about my favorite odyssey adaptation, o brother where art thou (2000)

Emily Wilson is a scholar of The Odyssey and I am not, so I'll gladly defer to her on all matters of what the poem says or what it meant historically. I'm more concerned here with its status in our culture as a dead thing from nearly three thousand years ago, one more unappealing item on a bored middle schooler's assigned reading list. In Homer's age, The Odyssey must have been alive, no? It was the thriller of the season, for hundreds of seasons in a row! It was packed with everyone's favorite adventure stories! I can't imagine those audiences listening to it in the dutiful, lofty, museum-going spirit so many of us reserve for our infrequent brushes with "high culture." When I imagine ancient Greek audiences hearing the poem, I think of the crowd at a wrestling match I attended recently, of the moment when a wrestler produced a folding chair wrapped in barbed wire. YOU SICK FUCK, we all hollered in delight as he advanced on his cowering opponent.
YOU SICK FUCK YOU SICK FUCK YOU SICK FUCK!

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𝓦𝓲𝓵𝓵 @wor-will.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Airplane (1980) #FilmSky #MovieSky #Movies

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

he's thinking of his riddles three

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Kimo Force™ @kimoforce.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I'm just saying, but Cartoon Network dot com and Miniclip kept me entertained for years that I never felt the need to bother with things like MySpace until I was old enough to engage with forums safely.

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Booooody Moos 👻 @bluedymoos.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Me: Yesterday I had to be a human. Today I'm just going to be a goblin. Husband: Sounds like a plan

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 26/07/2026

It’s important to note in this moment that the attacks on the LGBTQ community are global in nature. My heart goes out to the victims at Berlin Pride.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The point of an anti stalking order is for the police to know whose door to knock on first after they find your body.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22/07/2026

NEWS: WV GOP Assistant Majority Leader Elliott Pritt has been arrested and charged with enticing a minor after allegedly grooming a 15-year-old through Roblox and Snapchat, then having her meet him in his classroom. GOP leadership won't call for his resignation.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Oh they're gonna be SO MAD

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da da™️ drew @adrew.dadguy.pro · 15/03/2025

they already have this. it's a bus

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