Why Peter Thiel Is Decamping to the End of the World

[carride]

“All billionaires of the world who want to flee countries increasingly regulated, with higher taxes and governments that persecute their citizens, are welcome in the Argentine republic, the new land of freedom,” Manuel Adorni, Mr. Milei’s cabinet chief, said last month before congress, answering a question about Mr. Thiel.

Others have spread theories that he was coming to meddle in next year’s presidential elections, build large data centers or seize Argentine’s personal data with Palantir, which has deep relationships with the U.S. government.

In Argentina, U.S. Tech Billionaire Peter Thiel Finds An Escape

The billionaire’s new roots in Argentina are said to be partly motivated by concerns about the future of the United States and shared beliefs with Argentina’s right-wing leader.

www.nytimes.com

 

[JMHarris]

Oh, I believe in any and all theories re reprehensible Peter Thiel.

 

[FrankPintor]

This is really not good news.

 

[Rich One]

Couldn't read the WTJ Antichrist article

 

[Ries]

wait til he finds out argentina is full of communists, peronists, feminists, LGBQTs, cooperativas, and a political system far to the left of where he is leaving.

 

[JMHarris]

wait til he finds out argentina is full of communists, peronists, feminists, LGBQTs, cooperativas, and a political system far to the left of where he is leaving.

And that it is NOT a white, European country...

 

[twoofeverything]

So, running away from a one-time wealth tax into the arms of a yearly wealth tax.

 

[SlowWalker]

So, running away from a one-time wealth tax into the arms of a yearly wealth tax.

One could move to Texas, Florida or a list of other states if that was all it was.

 

[on the brink]

So, running away from a one-time wealth tax into the arms of a yearly wealth tax.

He won't pay that, either. A zillion ways for a zillionaire to evade taxes. As a millionairess once said " I dont pay taxes - small people pay taxes"

 

[D.B. Cooper]

He won't pay that, either. A zillion ways for a zillionaire to evade taxes. As a millionairess once said " I dont pay taxes - small people pay taxes"

I think you’re referring to Leona Hemsley, aka, “The Queen of Mean”. Elizabeth Baum, a former housekeeper, testified that Helmsley told her in 1983, “We [the rich] don’t pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.” In 1989 she was convicted of tax evasion among other things and served eighteen months in a federal prison beginning on April 15 (tax day) of that year.