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AnimalMuppetyesterday at 5:38 PM2 repliesview on HN

Which is a tax on only one kind of wealth. Back when that was the kind that mattered most, that made sense. Today? Not so much.


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adverblytoday at 12:40 AM

Still, seems like table stakes.

Start with georgist/pigouvian taxes, and then expand to other kinds of income/wealth afterwards.

But Georgist taxes can go really far I'd imagine.

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postflopclarityyesterday at 6:36 PM

it's more than that, because it's the one kind of wealth that has an (almost) completely inelastic supply