alt Hacker News> If she ever reaches that level of net worth, I highly doubt she'd have trouble paying a 2% tax on it.
The point is that politicians (and political influencers) have a habit of proposing thresholds for taxation on rich people that manage to stay above their own personal level of wealth (or income). It comes across as self-serving.
The thresholds should have some actual calculation behind them that doesn't appear motivated by the speaker's personal situation.
I understand your point and was responding directly. That is, I don't think you're point is supported.
The cutoff is far above what she makes. For her to pay anything significant she'd have to have a net worth well above $100m.
She also justifies the $50m explicitly. That is roughly the percentile where 0.1% of people would be affected. The other cutoff (where the tax goes up to 3%) is at $1b. That is where 0.05% of people are affected.