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by marcosdumay 3202 days ago
You can already stop at your two cons. Those are pretty insurmountable themselves.

Number 1 in particular creates a huge intervention in the details of an economy. Any government would want to fine tune this, and not create a tax aimed mostly on revenue collection. In particular, you do not want to go out of your way to bankrupt people when they make productive investments.