So you are talking about explicitly buying politicians?
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Added benefit: it would exclude all but the independently wealthy from politics so we might have better tax policy.
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I know just the right guy to collect the politician taxpic.twitter.com/XVKT5GOV5h
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I have a better plan - all taxes are paid directly to elected politicians, who then freely pass on that money to the federal government for funding its programs. immediately shifts incentives from getting money out of DC "from other voters" to keeping money out in the first place
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This actually feels like it could work
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I hope Pigouvian taxes on people aren't bills of attainder because it would kill my best policy proposalhttps://twitter.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1381772220070957056 …
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A pigouvian tax is just a sumptuary law armed with a chart.
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Yeah but they're mostly lawyers, so the bit about them being dead weight loss is redundant
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The best idea Glenn Reynolds ever had was for a 100% income tax on politicians entering the private sector for the first ten years of their employment
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