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nickfflast Tuesday at 6:13 PM1 replyview on HN

>”Genuine question, why?”

A wealth tax would clearly be a ‘direct tax’, which must be apportioned among the states according to the constitution.


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JumpCrisscrosslast Tuesday at 6:33 PM

Eh, this is debated. (Moore.) It could be written as an excise tax, too, push come to shove.

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