> or it gets bought by some more powerful entity - capable of paying the tax The "doubling after that each year" provision of the original comment neatly takes

> or it gets bought by some more powerful entity - capable of paying the tax The "doubling after that each year" provision of the original comment neatly takes care of that. After a relatively small number of doublings the size of the tax for the single item would be larger than the current US national debt. The 'math' term for this is "exponential growth".