For some historical context, there’s been at least one serious proposal from a significant US politician along these lines: https://www.hueylong.com/programs/s

For some historical context, there’s been at least one serious proposal from a significant US politician along these lines: https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth.php https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth.php In the interests of full context, Huey Long was an authoritarian populist and the Reverend Gerald L. K. Smith was a white supremacist by any meaning of those words. (Long wasn’t, but he was certainly happy to work with Smith.)