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You think wealth one person can own should be capped (or heavily discouraged/redistributed) at around _____ the average wealth one person has in the rest of the country

10x (or less)
6.2%
100x
20.6%
1000x (or more)
19.9%
No cap at all
53.3%

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5:54 PM · Sep 6, 2019

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For reference median net worth in the US is about $100k so the 3 answers correspond to caps of $1M, $10M and $100M.

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I don't believe in a cap but I do believe in a tax regime that prevents excessive accumulation and limits intergenerational transfers

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We should test the multiplier limits and see what kind of stuff doesn't get made at different levels of reward. Then we should set the multiplier based on that data.

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You should do another related poll, asking the origin of the people who voted for a certain option.

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Depends a *lot* on how we measure wealth. If you have a house, a mortgage, a financed car, student debt, a degree, and a job, with positive cash flow, but the student debts are larger than the equities... Is that > 0 wealth?

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For me, it’s a lot less about a percentage as much as it is about assets and business being a great way to avoid taxes. If a person has unrealized gains of $100 million and a company car, plane, dinners, etc. I would like them paying a more fair percentage of what they haveearned