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Comment by s1artibartfast

4 months ago

US GDP per capita is ~80k. IF you eliminated every billionaire and leveled every salary, this is the max you could get. Much less in actuality, because you would have a universal tax rate of about 40% on that to support the federal government, so ~50k per person after taxes.

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