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Saline9515yesterday at 9:43 PM2 repliesview on HN

Wealthy people own assets, not money. Stealing their assets doesn't reduce the money supply. Elon Musk is "rich" mainly in paper wealth.

Taxes raise inflation as they increase the production costs. If you tax too much wealthy people, they will leave, and take their capital away to invest it elsewhere. This as a result will lead to inflation due to lack of available capital for production.


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ghurtadoyesterday at 9:53 PM

> If you tax too much wealthy people, they will leave

Are we not tired yet of the various versions of the Reaganomics boogieman? When are we going to grow out of trickle down economics mentality?

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mulmenyesterday at 10:24 PM

> If you tax too much wealthy people, they will leave

You say this like it’s a bad thing.