[adamchalmers]

Specifically, he calls for a global tax on all capital, regardless of whether it's real estate, financial assets, homes, bonds, bank accounts. That way people can't get around it by shifting their assets overseas or into different forms.

Obviously this would be difficult to implement, but it can be done by individual states, then countries, then by groups like the EU, etc.

[WkndTriathlete]

I think this is impossible to implement without a significant fraction of the G-8 or G-20 countries electing technocrats to office.

Right now I'm envisioning Merkel and Macron asking themselves what on earth is happening in the rest of the West, especially in the wake of the election results in Italy over the past couple of days.