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    11 months ago

    Should just start by issuing a 80 percent tax in wealth that we haven’t hit yet

    Say, 400 billion.

    That way when they can pass it and say it doesn’t impact anyone. It’s just there as a buffer… And when musk or zuck hit that eventual trigger we tax the piss out of them

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      11 months ago

      We (U.S.) should revisit the Alternate Minimum Tax. The whole idea was to mitigate excessive deductions for the wealthy by earablishing a more straightforward way of calculating that their tax must at least match the minimum. I believe it even worked for a few years.

      • AMT was not indexed for inflation so affects more people every year with inflation , not just the wealthy
      • there are still too many loopholes so “money finds a way”