>I suspect if you want the rich to pay for this you're going to have to be prepared to go full French revolution. The real challenge is decoupling capital from

>I suspect if you want the rich to pay for this you're going to have to be prepared to go full French revolution. The real challenge is decoupling capital from political power. Otherwise, yeah, why would the rich just sit and watch it float away? If "more money" continues to translate so literally into "more influence," it's pretty hard to blame the rich for using their money to influence the government in ways that will help them continue to keep their money—at that point, it's just an investment. Of course, this kind of supposes that the working class wouldn't vote to do that on their own. Given the recent trends in American politics, I've stopped making too many assumptions about the weird decisions we make as a group.