>>Juts been reading Yanis Varoufakis book Adults in the Room. That was his proposal to start collecting evaded tax. Start with a low percentage to allow people to normalise their position
Bill F has a point when the wealthiest/most powerful in society get that way via inheritance, cronyism or banksterism. Providing capital for home ownership and business stimulates prosperity, but as we saw in the subprime collapse, that's not how the big fortunes arise any more. We. Are. Crazy.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1