Well, Carol, that kinda depends on what they're doing wiht the money, doesn't it. And it seems to me, at first blush, that if someone is energetically productively living on $20,000,000 they are probably supporting indirectly a LOT of people.

And if someone is living on a marginal income, 10% will not actually make or break them above a certain minimal level.

I don't see any benefit in taxing poor people at all. But I don' think it is wise to make the state of the poor a governance on the penalties imposed on people who are not poor. It has a corrosive influence on intiative and enterprise. And, it breeds tax evasion mechanisms of magnificent complexity and cleverness which would be better spent finding more productive ways to spread employment and improve the community of survivors on which civilization depends.

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Notice I didn't suggest a 10% tax rate. I suggested a consitutional protection against being more burdened by the state in all ways than a ten per cent cap.

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