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Do you think Portugal really has a lot of ultra-rich people sitting around to fleece?



Do you think nobody is rich in Portugal?


The combined net worth of all billionaires in Portugal[1] is about 10% of annual government spending [2].

So to within a rounding error, no, it's a poor country full of poor people with an irrelevant number of billionaires. You could destroy all foreign investment and future growth by confiscating literally all of their wealth for 1 year of modestly higher government spending.

[1] https://profilbaru.com/article/List_of_Portuguese_by_net_wor..., ignoring people who nominal "citizens" but live and hold money elsewhere.

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/275337/government-revenu....




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