Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily

Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• lemmyman@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  We need a tax system where the government figures out how much they need each year, and then just takes it proportional to net wealth above a certain amount.

  That’s exactly how property taxes work if you replace “net worth” with “assessed property value.”

  (As opposed to what some people think, that rising property values on their own lead to rising property taxes)

  So yeah, why the heck not do the same with other forms of wealth?

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• MasterBlaster@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  So, the government should decide how much wealth its citizens should have, and enforce that? I think there are better ways to approch this than turning citizens into subjects.

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