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336 pages, Paperback
First published April 13, 2021
Senator Elizabeth Warren’s wealth-tax proposal would tax wealth only above $50 million; and Senator Bernie Sanders’s, only above $32 million. Any amount of wealth below that goes completely untaxed. This means both that only the ultrawealthy are affected by the wealth tax, and that a wealth tax can’t tax anyone into poverty.
For people making $400,000, $500,000, even $600,000, money is still real; that’s not the case for people who make $10 million or $20 million a year. And it is certainly not the case for people who have one thousand million dollars (a.k.a. $1 billion). Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes set the internet on fire when she called for 70% tax rates on incomes over $10 million (meaning that someone would pay 70% starting with the first dollar of the eleventh million). She was taking into account the marginal utility of money.