To this day, Sanders' proposed exit tax remains one of the most alarming authoritarian proposals I've ever seen from a US presidential candidate. Confiscating property with explicit intent to keep a particular class of citizens from voluntarily leaving is a *hell* of a precedent
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"The citizen's ultimate recourse if they no longer agree to the terms of living in a country is to leave" They are not prevented from doing so. Given these amounts, the immensely wealthy will remain immensely wealthy even after this "penalty"
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Threatening to take half of someone's assets if they do x will definitely disincentivize them. And if you're not trying to disincentivize anything, why not do it to everyone? Poof, half of what you have is now ours. You're still plenty rich.
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