edit: This turned into a bit of a rant so putting a note here to say this isn’t personally ranting at the OP, just the standard of dialogue around this problem.

edit: This turned into a bit of a rant so putting a note here to say this isn’t personally ranting at the OP, just the standard of dialogue around this problem. Saying “tax the rich” doesn’t make it happen. It’s almost as if these politicians and celebrities that come along and vomit hashtags into their twitter feed are under the impression it’s never been done because no-one thought of it before. Tax the rich how, exactly? Lowering exemptions and allowances to raise duties is a tax on the working poor. Raising income tax rates is a tax on the working middle class (we hear plans to do this all the time because fiscally conservative politicians believe their voters are too stupid to notice the difference between income and wealth). If you want to “tax the rich” you need to tax actual wealth - and you need to figure out a way to do that which doesn’t cause capital flight. This has proven very difficult to do successfully. So, we can either re-visit wealth inequality when we have unilaterally matched global tax rates with no loopholes a few centuries from now after the robots have completely taken over, or act like grown-ups, put some work in and figure out a solution. Tweeting shallow nonsense like “tax the rich” without offering a plan while ignoring the massive complexity in taxing wealth in a global economy is a cynical ploy on the poor while laughing hysterically in the face of the working middle.