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I am not aware of any examples where a country taxes a single individual at a higher rate than everyone else by law. If examples are innumerable, I'd be gratefu

• bombcar 5y ago
  Iirc the first income tax targeted a very small number of individuals- maybe just Rockefeller or something, as nobody else qualified.
  • asdfasgasdgasdg 5y ago
    I believe it, although at least then it's still targeting a class that others might enter. I do also believe that there's a fundamental difference between income taxes and wealth taking in this regard, in that one is retroactive and the other isn't.
• yunohn 5y ago
  Where are you getting this strawman of taxing “single individuals”? I’m saying that classes of people or businesses are already taxed differently.
  • asdfasgasdgasdg 5y ago
    > Where are you getting this strawman of taxing “single individuals”? Could you please reread the section of my comment that you quoted and your response to it? I said, "it would clearly be wrong to pass a law that raises taxes on one person by name," and you said, "there are innumerable such taxes, globally." You very specifically did not say that classes of people or businesses are taxed differently. You said single individuals are taxed differently. (You might not have intended to, and if not, well enough, but I set up no strawman in my comment.)