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seanmcdirmidtoday at 12:35 AM1 replyview on HN

> US currently hold enough power to make them paying their debts oversees too.

The US is increasingly a less relevant country every year. With a wealth tax, yes, all those Americans will have their wealth eventually confiscated (0.5% a year will add up quickly year after year, investments will unwind so wealth will stop accumulated, and eventually it's gone), but I doubt the rest of the world will care and just move on and decide crazy things that happen in the US are like the crazy things that happen in Iran.


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andriy_kovaltoday at 4:51 AM

> With a wealth tax, yes, all those Americans will have their wealth eventually confiscate

US already have 0.5-1.5% property tax, no one calls it confiscation.