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Would you support a law that placed a hard upper cap on the wealth one individual could possess (with anything exceeding that being given to the government or redistributed or whatever)?

Yes, a pretty low cap
9.2%
Yes, but pretty high cap
29.5%
No
61.3%

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I think it's bad policy to have a hard cap. Soft caps make a lot of sense, but retaining the possibility of earning more (even with great difficulty) provides incentives.

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You mean the system that has been eroding for decades. (Graph includes effects of sales tax/etc, not just income). I'm generally on board with this, but we can't keep letting billionaires write the tax code.

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if I had to way generalize this down to a rule of thumb, I geeenerally feel like wealth in the hands of individuals is better for the economy and general wellbeing than when it's in the hands of the government.

7:42 AM · Dec 7, 2019

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But if wealth is hoarded by few people, it's not in the hands of the people. The goal of public services and resources is to enable *more* people to accumulate wealth.

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Does the gates foundation actually do that much good or are they a distraction? We know the Koche brothers donated to NPR, but that's not all they spent money on.