Taxing wealth instead of work is touted as an important part of the solution to the wealth gap, but I’m curious which other solutions have been proposed or attempted and have succeeded or failed.
Taxing wealth instead of work is touted as an important part of the solution to the wealth gap, but I’m curious which other solutions have been proposed or attempted and have succeeded or failed.
It makes much more sense to just give it to everyone. If you start implementing means testing then you need to hire people to determine who is eligible for what, and administrative costs wind up being substantial.