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Why is a wealth tax not a good idea? Seems like it is the right idea.


Wealth taxes in practice tend to make income taxes look simple - to be effective they need to be capricious and arbitrary in way that's difficult to sustain in a country with a legal system that at least makes a reasonable show of not liking either of those two things.




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