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by 21 2719 days ago
It's simple, you start at the top, by imposing a 70% tax on the higher brackets as Cortez wants. If the marginalized group would get too wealthy (straw-man argument), the 70% tax would still do it's job.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/08/alexan...

2 comments

I'm not saying higher taxes aren't something I want, but it's impossible to get by the heavily lobbied government
So remove the incentive to earn above a certain threshold?
If taking home 300 mil on a 1 bil income is not incentive to you...
Who earns $1B as income? I seriously don't think that is a thing. The big earning usually happens when companies or stock gets sold. And yes, it would hurt incentive and takes away funding from capital investment.