Well, that's one option but not the only one. Like in the Ferguson riots one of the legitimate gripes of the locals was the local government raised money from hard up working people by stopping and fining them which often caused a lot of problems. They could use the money to get rid of that stuff rather than sending it to the rich.
There are already more than enough available investment dollars in the USA. More of them than viable business ideas. Adding even more means only asset inflation and even higher P/Es that progressively make stock market resemble a Ponzi scheme, and further increase of real estate prices that are already unaffordable in most of the country.