Under a 3% wealth tax, Bezos’ first-year “fair share” exceeds *all* his liquid assets. Founders’ wealth is in their companies, not yachts. There’s nothing worth enough to sell but ownership stake. A cartoon vision of wealth is going to dismantle the strongest economy in the world
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I definitely worry about capital flight under a wealth tax. That's why Piketty argued it had to be done cooperatively with other countries. USA does already tax capital on exit though (when people give up citizenship).
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We need to change the nexus of taxation to make it harder for the rich to avoid being appropriate taxation in a more mobile world IMO. But that's a broad issue beyond just a wealth tax.
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