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Putting aside moral issues, taxes don't redistribute wealth. They just give it to the government.

How is the government going to be suddenly better at managing money? What leadership controls this new spending? What makes them so much better? This is the day 2 stuff that never gets any thought, and yet is the critical piece of this theory.




I too would like to see this half of the proposal. Surely there must be educated writing out there somewhere about the less dramatic part of the story.


Case in point: 2018 Federal taxes centralized $3.4T in the hands of 300 people.




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