re: #246 Barflytom
Federal revenue as a percentage of GDP peaked at about 24% of GDP in 1945. For most of the period since then it’s stayed between 15 and 20% of GDP, even though upper income tax rates have varied widely in that period. That’s just a fact. If I’m wrong, please show me the figures.
You also have different circumstances now than you did in the fifties or sixties for instance. There are a lot more places for rich people to go now.
It’s no good saying that’s “wrong” somehow, it’s just reality.
If they wish to leave, let them do so. But they pay one final tax on the way out the door and they surrender their passport with the understanding that they will not be allowed back within the boundaries of the United States or its territories unless they sign paperwork admitting they left the US for the purpose of avoiding taxes.