[pydry]

>The reason that isn't done isn't that you can't raise enough revenue that way

Nah, it's coz any bill that attacks the ultrawealthy can be spiked to attack the moderately wealthy instead (ideal) or as well as (failing that it's better to make them allies).

This is where lobby $$$ really pays off - when tweaking the less overtly visible finer details of bills.

This pairs with a PR campaign of:

* We simply dont have that much money.

* You'd be better off not taxing it because then we wont innovate and then youll be sorry.

* We will leave the country entirely and then youll be sorry.

* You're next on the government hitlist (weirdly this one works even seems to on people who earn, like, $40k a year).