The EU #TaxTheRich petition has failed to gather 1 million signatures.

Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

And sure, there will be justifications on why this happened. That it was the wrong group of people leading the initiative. That it wasn't promoted the right way. It's always easy to criticise afterwards. But where were you when you could have added your knowledge and experience to make it work? Or at the very least inform your friends? I tried to promote and mobilise. Had the link pinned to my profile. 2/3

Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

So. Let's all bookmark https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/_en (or in your preferred language) and keep an eye on new European Citizen Initiatives (and maybe start one!) because they can really help to put topics on the EU agenda. Deal? 3/3

Luc Stroobant

@jwildeboer Paul Magnette is het president of the PS in Belgium. Most of their previous propositions to tax the rich in Belgium ended up with taxing the higher middle class. In a country with some of the highest taxes in the world, it will be hard to convince people to sign this proposal, specially when it's coming from a party that ruled Belgium for a long time and was never able to fix the issues here.

Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

@stroobl And yet Belgium ended at over 94%, so almost made it. An EU petition does not result in changes in national law, so reducing the EU initiative to one of the initiators being from Belgium and from a party you don't really like isn't helpful, IMHO.

Arjen Haayman

@jwildeboer ze hebben geen RSS feed

Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

@haayman But they do offer a monthly newsletter at https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/newsletter/subscribe_en

Toitoine

@jwildeboer I tried to sign it two times, but the procedure was quite annoying. I don't even remember if I managed to validate it or not. I think it was a major problem and for sure some people (even motivated) just let it down at some point.

Aleksandra Lesya

@jwildeboer Think better, how do news propagate ? (ads, Social media, TV, newspaper) ... so who own them ? the billionaire ?

Now you know why nobody knew about it ... and so signed it ...

Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

@girlintech And didn't we create federated networks to have an alternative way to spread information?

Aleksandra Lesya

@jwildeboer i signed it and many people relayed it on their social where the most people are (x, Facebook etc) and people rarely share 2 time the same link on differents network.

We moved here but 80% of the global user have not (and in this 20% a very VERY little part is european) and on this very little part, you take that 1/3 will actually sign it.

So yeah that explain many thing

Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

@girlintech Compare it with the "Stop destroying videogames" petition. That already has reached quorum in 6 countries. I guess that egoistic goals will do better than solidarity https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2024/000007_en

rugk

@antoinechev @jwildeboer hmm what was annoying there? And from which country are you? (It often totally depends.)

AFAIK you just need to enter address details. You can try that with any other good #eci and as indicated by the OP it's always good to look and sign other good ECIs too.

Toitoine

@rugk @jwildeboer hi, I'm from Belgium ! What is an eci ?

Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

@antoinechev European Citizens Initiative, see https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/_en @rugk