pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · edit-22 years ago[Serious] The revolution was successful! The old government is gone. You get to help write the new Constitution. What do you put into it?message-squaremessage-square318fedilinkarrow-up1179arrow-down123
arrow-up1156arrow-down1message-square[Serious] The revolution was successful! The old government is gone. You get to help write the new Constitution. What do you put into it?pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · edit-22 years agomessage-square318fedilink
minus-squareGombeenSysadmin@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up22arrow-down4·2 years agoAll income over $10m per year is taxed at 100%. Foreign and domestic put together.
minus-squareConyak@lemmy.tflinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·2 years agoI get where you are going but it would make more sense to be based on a percentage above a living wage or something like that. In 100 years 10 million will be worth a lot less than today.
minus-squareGombeenSysadmin@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up19·2 years agoMaybe start it at 10m and index link it to the average wage thereafter. Make it in their own interests to boost everyone’s wages.
minus-squareJohnDClay@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 years agoMake sure it’s the median wage rather than the mean wage, otherwise they can just hugely increase wages for a few outliers.
minus-squareJohnDClay@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up11·2 years agoThat would get rid of inflation really fast as billionaires try to figure out how to deflate the currency.
minus-squareMajorHavoc@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 years agoI don’t think the billionaires survived the initial premise of this thought experiment.
minus-squareSkySyrup@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoI don’t have a problem with that
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All income over $10m per year is taxed at 100%. Foreign and domestic put together.
I get where you are going but it would make more sense to be based on a percentage above a living wage or something like that. In 100 years 10 million will be worth a lot less than today.
Maybe start it at 10m and index link it to the average wage thereafter. Make it in their own interests to boost everyone’s wages.
I like that idea!
Make sure it’s the median wage rather than the mean wage, otherwise they can just hugely increase wages for a few outliers.
That would get rid of inflation really fast as billionaires try to figure out how to deflate the currency.
I don’t think the billionaires survived the initial premise of this thought experiment.
I don’t have a problem with that
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