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by garbageoverflow 971 days ago
I think a less radical idea would be to, once and for all, force all billionaires to pay their fair share of taxes and then use the amount they paid extra to solve some of the worlds problems.

I didn't do the math so I don't really know what could be done with such sums.

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How do you imagine the "forcing" would happen, hypothetically speaking?
Eliminating accidental and deliberate loopholes and using whatever mechanisms that already are usual (including criminal prosecution and potentially imprisonment) might be a start.
Sounds like the succinct answer here is "at gunpoint". Has this been tried before?