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Re:The impotence of the long-distance trillionaire by achenatx on Monday May 09, 2022 @01:56PM (#31317464)
A system that can arbitrarily take away all assets over 1 billion, will arbitrarily take assets of less than a billion. When the government has that much power, someone will come along and abuse it.

Also no matter how much money the government is given, it will never have enough.

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Re:The impotence of the long-distance trillionaire by jdlshore on Monday May 09, 2022 @02:16PM (#31317754)
That argument seems flawed to me. The government already does have the power to tax, and could arbitrarily take away all your assets, but in developed nations, it doesn't.
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