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Is the Wealth Tax a Thing?
There's a famous line in political philosophy that democracy is not two wolves and a sheep voting on what they're going to have for dinner, ok? And so part of the american founding wasn't just sort of the major tarian machinery of government. It was a preoccupation with with the rights of individuals and minorities to be provided against what majorities would do. I mean, there have to be rights of individuals that are protectable on some leveland i think it's a real constitutional issue whether the wealth tax is even allowed.