• gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.deOP
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    4 hours ago

    Elmo give 2.5% of his wealth?

    You seem to be misreading.

    Give 2.5% of their wealth, each year, not just give 2.5% of their income. There’s a huge difference.

    Wealth gets taxed every year, unlike income which gets taxed only once. So in 20 years, the wealth tax is roughly 20*2.5% which is 50%. And in 30 years it’s closer to 75%.

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      41 minutes ago

      That is exactly what I’m saying.

      2.5% of his wealth is nothing, he quite easily gains or loses ten times that in a year

      Set a maximum amount of wealth per person each year. Anything you earn over that automatically goes into a 100% bracket.

      There literally is no reason why one person should be allowed to have a billion dollars in wealth, whilst another person is homeless and needs to waddle into crime to be able to feed themselves

      10 million total wealth. That sounds like a reasonably sane maximum anyone should ever have the power over. Anything above that, taxes.