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Wealth taxes in the United States are not just politically and practically infeasible. The Constitution requires that a wealth tax be in proportion to each stat
by votepaunchy 7y ago
Wealth taxes in the United States are not just politically and practically infeasible. The Constitution requires that a wealth tax be in proportion to each state’s population.
- rolltiide 7y agoYou’re right, we should therefore make representation proportionate to each state’s population, fair trade. (Obviously no consensus on a constitutional amendment but some states have passed laws that their electoral college votes must go towards the popular vote, which could get more widespread enough)
- newfriend 7y agoWe already do have proportionate representation in the house. The electoral college was specifically designed to be a mixture of the house and senate systems. At some point it might be good for you to get over the 2016 election.
- pjc50 7y agoI'm not over the 2000 election being decided by "hanging chad" yet.
- rolltiide 7y agoI don't represent any disdain toward the 2016 election. I can recognize that the left does have the numbers in this country and they flocked towards the coasts. They can selectively flock back to enough counties to make every single state blue if they could tolerate middle america for a single year. Only needs to happen once to remove power from the people that benefit from the electoral college.
- pjc50 7y agoWhere does it say that, and what does that mean?