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debo_last Wednesday at 1:20 PM2 repliesview on HN

I do think taxing profits is still insufficient, because unless the tax rate is close to 100% (lol) the "k-shaped" economy is still reinforced, but just slowed slightly. In combination with a wealth/holdings tax, maybe.

Personally I think the idea of taxing robots/tokens directly is too narrow an idea.


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asdf88990last Wednesday at 1:47 PM

It is because personal income tax should have never existed. Nor should have taxes on primary residence. These are the most regressive taxes possible, it is basically serfdom.

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johnnyanmaclast Wednesday at 1:35 PM

It's undesirable by the companies, but it's not impossible. There's this constant talk about "Making American Great Again (Again)", but not much talk about the economic conditions that made America Great. Like high corporate tax.

That's half the battle. The other half is closing all the loopholes and making stuff that used to be illegal, illegal again (e.g. stock buybacks).