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Comment by sokoloff

2 days ago

Article I, Section 9, Clause 4 of the U.S. Constitution would like a word (assuming you’re contemplating a federal wealth tax; states could do it, at the risk expressed in the headline of the article we’re discussing).

That’s a law my dude. We can change it at any time. We did already for the income tax (amendment 16).

  • Yes, that’s exactly my point.

    That is what makes the timeline GGP laid out impossible:

    > We can pass a wealth tax tomorrow and it’ll suddenly be taxable.

    Unless we don’t share a common definition of “tomorrow” or “suddenly”. (For reference, the 16th Amendment process took about 3 years and 7½ months from Senator Norris Brown’s initial formal proposal to ratification by the then-necessary 36th state. [You would need 38 states today.])