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A wealth tax is not needed to "pay for" anything, since the US funds itself directly using currency issuance. That is, the US is a currency issuer rather than a user of currency. The purpose of taxation is to: control for inflation discourage taxed behavior address social needs A wealth tax would address 2 and 3. Regarding 2, the negative behavior being discouraged is rent-seeking and a wealth tax would serve to preempt rent extraction. Regarding 3, the social need being addressed is relative equality in a liberal democracy in order to obviate falling into oligarchy as a kind of neo-feudalism based on ownership. Robert ReichWhy We Need a Wealth Tax Robert Reich | Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum
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Mike Norman considers the following as important: fiscal policy, inequality, tax policy, wealth tax
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A wealth tax is not needed to "pay for" anything, since the US funds itself directly using currency issuance. That is, the US is a currency issuer rather than a user of currency. A wealth tax is not needed to "pay for" anything, since the US funds itself directly using currency issuance. That is, the US is a currency issuer rather than a user of currency. The purpose of taxation is to: control for inflation discourage taxed behavior address social needs A wealth tax would address 2 and 3. Regarding 2, the negative behavior being discouraged is rent-seeking and a wealth tax would serve to preempt rent extraction. Regarding 3, the social need being addressed is relative equality in a liberal democracy in order to obviate falling into oligarchy as a kind of neo-feudalism based on ownership. Robert ReichWhy We Need a Wealth Tax Robert Reich | Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum
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The purpose of taxation is to:
- control for inflation
- discourage taxed behavior
- address social needs
A wealth tax would address 2 and 3. Regarding 2, the negative behavior being discouraged is rent-seeking and a wealth tax would serve to preempt rent extraction. Regarding 3, the social need being addressed is relative equality in a liberal democracy in order to obviate falling into oligarchy as a kind of neo-feudalism based on ownership.
Robert Reich
Why We Need a Wealth Tax
Robert Reich | Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies; formerly Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration