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Comment by mmooss

6 months ago

Tangentially, the solution would not be higher 'income tax', but higher capital gains tax.

The confusion largely is that 'income tax' is really 'wage tax'. Income common wealthy people with lots of capital is return on their capital investment, which is exluded from that tax.

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