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Trump proposes massive one-time tax on the rich
- lukevdp 12y agoMaybe this should be marked as from 1999!
- jejones3141 12y agoTwo comments: -- there's nothing as permanent as a temporary tax -- the government will just spend that much more; I'm not even sure that a constitutional balanced budget amendment will help, because it is sure to have some exception for emergencies, at which point there will of course be a perpetual emergency.
- steanne 12y agothere's nothing stopping him and any other rich person he can convince to make that kind of contribution to the public debt right now. https://www.pay.gov/public/form/start/23779454/ https://www.pay.gov/public/form/start/23779454/