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Come on that's a little silly. Even Amazon or Apple would be a rounding error to the government's balance sheet. Noone would have the incentive to organize such
by elefanten 8y ago
Come on that's a little silly. Even Amazon or Apple would be a rounding error to the government's balance sheet. Noone would have the incentive to organize such a public and attention-drawing murder conspiracy for super incremental gains to an entity noone can reliably control.
- User23 8y agoInterestingly though, this is how the Roman Empire funded itself from time to time. Caesar would proscribe some rich citizen and then seize his assets.
- macspoofing 8y agoWe can go a step further. That's the modus operandi of every authoritarian regime ever, including every communist dictatorship.
- macspoofing 8y agoIt is fun to come up with unintended consequences of an unworkable feel-good policy. But I wouldn't necessarily dismiss it because the incentive is there. Having said that, I don't think there's any question that this policy would lead to massive tax evasion. Not including all the fun societal unintended consequences we can only speculate about ... and all for what? To punish some trust fund kids OP is bitter against?
- 8note 8y agocan't the government do that right now? there's incentive for the government to assisinate billionaires and forge wills that donate the whole shebang to the government. and yet, they don't do this? it can't be a great incentive
- macspoofing 8y agoWe still live in a society that is against that level of redistribution. When that changes, you'll have different type of people in government. But it is very possible in the future. This is exactly what happens in socialist regimes like Venezuela and Authoritarian regimes like modern Russia.