Tell me in what world do you need fewer agents to appraise literally everything owned by everybody every year? I bet you own things you've forgotten about, but some IRS agent would have to go over all of it.

So you are making broad exceptions allowing the wealthy to buy, trade, and store their wealth there. You've ruined the entire point of the wealth tax.

Congratulations, you just replaced the wealth tax idea with corporate income tax. A much more feasible system.

But without private property no one can accumulate wealth by exploiting the labor of others. I haven't ruined the point of the wealth tax, I've preempted the need for it.

A mean, maybe. Certainly we at least agree it's a better idea than a wealth tax.

But it isn't true. It's working right now in Norway, off the top of my head.

But I'd imagine very wealthy people would be willing to spend a pretty penny to convince people like you and me that it doesn't work.

No idea, but if anything they doubled on it

It’s past taxes when they are raping and eating children. It’s prison, hanging and wealth cap time. Taxing is the most moderate of positions

Doing a quick search, it's not working out for Noway. Their tax revenue is down because the wealthy moved away.

They've had a wealth tax in Norway since 1892.

The article I looked at was an increase of the wealth tax that occurred recently. So you're right, not the start of it just a consequence of it.

What was the article? This one from November claims revenue has still increased - while ridding themselves of more wealth hoarders:

"Revenue from it has climbed despite the exodus and now sits at 0.6% of GDP"

https://www.reuters.com/business/norways-wealth-tax-trades-millionaires-equality-2025-11-24/

The rich already pay more than their fair share

Cool story, except they don't:

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax

I made $100,000 more in 2025 than 2024 and was taxed 17% less... Needless to say this isn't fair when people get taxed at $31k. Fuck this place.

I'm donating the difference, as I had also already planned to spend all of it on taxes.

In the world where you have so many loopholes, and with so much complexity, that you have to anyway keep track of who's got what, who owes what to whom, what something is worth, etc etc

What's wrong with that take?

Sure theyre gonna say that. Kissing up to their overlords is job security

Wait who is the Washington Post owned by again I forget….

Support independent media. Chanel 5 has been doing good work recently, they just put out a doc about cartel violence in Mexico.

Isn't that dude a sex pest or something?

The general population understands/perceives that the rich do not pay their share and actively avoid paying their share

Depends on your definition I guess. Supposedly he was trying to hook up with fans and some felt weird about it and spoke up, calling him aggressive.

Can we stop pretending that the Washington Post is a real newspaper anymore?

It's repeated frequently because of Brandolini's Law:

"The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it."

It's not kissing up, saying this stuff is literally their job. They are owned by a billionaire who directs them to write these things.

That IS kissing up.

There's a parallel here with that saying about how unions are the alternative to the workers burning down the factory owner's house. And that's before we get into the non-financial evils you mentioned.

I’m in a construction union and the truth about the construction unions are they are mostly republicans and they are run like white supremisist gangs. I believe in unions but I’ve seen some horrible stuff in one.

Just look at who owns it.

Then close the loopholes. Much simpler.

Jeff Bezos, also the owner of Amazon

Take their wealth by force. Reclaim what has been stolen every day for decades.