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Monday, 17 August 2026
Wealth taxes
"Defenders of a billionaire tax need to show that government officials would better allocate the relevant resources than billionaire entrepreneurs themselves," says Chris Freiman, "but I’ve yet to see any of them make that case."
If a case could be made that bank robbers would “better allocate the funds” they are stealing than the bank depositors who earned those funds, does that justify bank robbery?
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Absolutely! A succinct way of expressing it..
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