It seems that wealth taxes are a far more sensible kind of taxation. But, strangely, there is little serious discussion of them. I sometimes wonder what it wou

It seems that wealth taxes are a far more sensible kind of taxation. But, strangely, there is little serious discussion of them. I sometimes wonder what it would look like if there were just two kinds of taxes responsible for most government revenue: a VAT and a wealth tax. The problem seems to be that, psychologically, people would rather be taxed via witholdings.