> The unwillingness to do the right things Taxing people so the government can waste more money is not "the right thing". > even far-left democratic-socialist

> The unwillingness to do the right things Taxing people so the government can waste more money is not "the right thing". > even far-left democratic-socialist US politicians like Bernie Sanders only proposes taxing the top 0.1% As the GP pointed out, this is exactly how income tax was originally pushed through: by saying, oh, don't worry, it will only apply to the very top earners. Now look at it. The fundamental problem with taxation of any sort is that, most of the time, the government is worse at spending the money than the people that it gets taxed away from. I don't see why a wealth tax would be any different.