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Re:To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider Janitors by pjmorris on Sunday September 03, 2017 @01:46PM (#15162729)
> you can hit probably 98% of wealth by just taxing the calculated value of owned land and buildings (which is already being appraised for property taxes in most states)

Henry George proposed this in the 1800's [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism

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Re:To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider Janitors by dredmorbius on Sunday September 03, 2017 @06:28PM (#15164333)
And David Ricardo prior to him (George credits Ricardo lavishly, though I seldom see this mentioned).
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Re:To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider Janitors by conanbatt on Monday September 04, 2017 @12:27AM (#15165722)
And Milton Friedman after both of those
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