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Re:U.S. workers took home their smallest share of capital si... by Eddy_Viscosity2 on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @09:05AM (#50352142)
> You can implement policies that tax more than just than just income.

Umm, no you can't. Otherwise We would have done this already. In a world where the rich would be even richer, this would be even more impossible.

Re:U.S. workers took home their smallest share of capital si... by greycol on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @03:32PM (#50371101)
I'm sure you're suggesting that it's politically infeasible to implement policies that curtail the worst excesses of capitalism, but in case you are saying it's not feasible to tax anything but income, then the words 'sales tax', 'vice tax', or the hilarious (because of resulting inverted pyramid buildings) 'footprint tax' are easily searchable examples. The footprint tax being a cautionary example of unintended outcomes. Interestingly New Zealand law states you can't try to get around taxes on technicalities, which depending on your view on how government can abuse power is either great common sense or the sound of authoritarian klaxons peeling the end of freedom through airy-fairy arbitrary laws.