@eyesquash the reason we want to take money out of the economy so the stae can spend money without inflation or requiring very high interest rates. taking the money of the rich out of the economy doesn’t do much about that ‘cuz they weren’t spending it anyway. (you’d have to take a whole whole lot away before it’d have any real effect through their investment choices. either the investments are small relative to their net worth, or they bring along banks and others to limit their risk.)