Count me out, not that it will change anything, but I’m not a fan of suddenly taxing wealth, even if it has been improperly protected. Rules are rules, even if they’re wrong. I know, it’s a popular idea and it’s always easy to defend what’s popular. Politicians do it all the time and then fail to deliver.
in America, there are (and always have been) the haves and the have-nots. Teddy Roosevelt pledged to ‘break the trusts,’ over a hundred years ago, and so we now have anti-trust legislation as the law of the land, and what pretends to be anti-monopoly laws as well.
Those were both feel-good laws, and yet we’re not feeling so good
Amazon (the horse everyone loves to beat) absolutely dominates online merchandising, Starbucks has pretty much closed every coffee-shop in town and Walmart shuttered most of downtown small America. Every once in a while, Politicians threaten anti-monopoly legislation, but then they get paid off, as expected, and the proposed laws die in committee.
That’s why we h…