Rajeev Shah·4h agoWhat About Someone with a Valuable House but Little Income?The case is a real one, and it is usually raised honestly. A house bought a long time ago now stands well above any threshold anyone would…
Jan Raymond·2d agoBernies Wealth Tax is a Bad IdeaBernie must be pretty clueless about history because the Democrats developed a graduated income tax system during the Great Depression that…A response icon1A response icon1
Rajeev Shah·5d agoWould Pensions Count as Wealth?The worry behind this objection is a specific person: a teacher or a nurse retiring on a defined benefit pension, who has never thought of…
Rajeev Shah·Oct 30Could Payment Be Deferred Until an Asset Is Sold?Norway lets an owner put off the wealth tax on business assets for up to three years. The price is interest at the central bank’s policy…
Rajeev Shah·Oct 28What About Founders Whose Shares Cannot Be Sold?A founder can hold most of what they own in a company that has never paid them a dividend. The shares are worth something on paper, and a…
InGeopolitics & BeyondbySahil Nair·Oct 16Finally, a Country Is Taxing Its Billionaires: Could Others Follow?A country is taking aim at billionaire wealth with a tax policy that could reshape the debate over inequality, public revenue, and economic…
Jurijus Aleksiejevas·Oct 13In 1943 America fixed its income tax by moving the collection pointWhy does an argument about how much the rich should pay always become an argument about measurement?
Trixy·Sep 6Britain's housing wealth is a £5.4 trillion drag on the real economyThe UK has locked more than half its national wealth into bricks and mortar compared to 29% in the United States, starving productive…
