A 90% one-time wealth tax on billionaires could end world hunger for 10 years. Billionaires would still be comfortably rich.
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This is a redistribution dilemma with the math set so the trade-off is unusually clean. A one-time wealth tax doesn't depress incentives the way recurring income taxes might; the affected group stays wealthy; the gain is denominated in human lives. The disagreement is about whether redistributive power, once exercised at this scale, can be limited to this case.
Why people split
One side treats global hunger as a harm so severe that any policy that can plausibly end it has to be considered seriously. The other treats one-time wealth tax as one-time only in name β once a precedent for that level of extraction exists, the next 'one-time' comes faster, and the next definition of 'billionaire' gets lower.
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