A wealth tax shouldn't be designed in such a way that everyone has the same access to the exact same things. It should be designed in a way that removes or lowe

A wealth tax shouldn't be designed in such a way that everyone has the same access to the exact same things. It should be designed in a way that removes or lowers the barriers for accessing those things, and gives more people the opportunity to access those things. On one extreme you have a wealth tax that ensures that everyone has the exact same access to everything - that degenerates in a communist regime where nobody can get richer than another and people don't really have any incentives to be more productive than others. On the other extreme you have no wealth tax at all - that degenerates in the American plutocracy and anarcho-capitalism, where a tiny fraction of the population owns most of the wealth, can swing elections in whichever direction they like, can make sure that politicians never charge a penny on them, and where the GINI index is at the same levels as it was in 1929 and the intergenerational earnings elasticity is so low that basically the family where you are born determines how much you're going to earn, regardless of your merit. Between these two extremes there's a wide spectrum of wealth tax rates that you can apply to redistribute wealth and opportunity in a fairer way and find the best trade-off between meritocracy and equality. "Wealth tax aims to make everyone earn the same" is pure bullshit. "If you don't tax the billionaires then they will invest more and the wealth will trickle down to the population" is also another piece of utter Reaganist bullshit. It's time to admit these simple truths, because I'm honestly getting sick of people concluding "a wealth tax is communist" without even considering how wide the spectrum between the two extremes actually is, and I'm starting to question their actual intelligence.