In fairness, dictators can absolutely do this, none of this is outside of their purview, and plenty of dictators would raise taxes on companies to seize their profits and assets for their political agenda.
In fact, the UK just passed a law taxing oil companies for having made profits, simply because they can.
I actually do think these are totally unacceptable policies. But they are not dictatorial policies. Just bad ones that can destroy the economy of those countries.
In fairness, dictators can absolutely do this, none of this is outside of their purview, and plenty of dictators would raise taxes on companies to seize their profits and assets for their political agenda.
In fact, the UK just passed a law taxing oil companies for having made profits, simply because they can.
I actually do think these are totally unacceptable policies. But they are not dictatorial policies. Just bad ones that can destroy the economy of those countries.
Yeah, both left and right-wing authoritarians have no problem seizing peoples money. Both are bad.