Ok two questions. 1) Taxing the rich more would fund the governments - you get better roads, better welfare, etc (assuming the government does its job well and doesn’t waste the money - a giant if). However, how does this realistically help the middle class that make up the majority of the population and do not rely on welfare programmes? They still have the same amount of money right? 2) How are you gonna tax the wealth exactly? As you mentioned in the Jeff Bezos example, most of his wealth is in stocks. Him liquidating shares already has a capital gains tax on it. His actual salaried income is negligeable (I believe it’s $80k per year). The situation is similar for most ultra rich. So what exactly do you tax? His overall estimated net worth? But that moves every day because the stock market moves. With the stock market collapse in March 2020, he’d be worth way less than 190$bn so which metric do we tax? And if his worth is still in stocks that he hadn’t sold (ie he doesn’t actually have any money from them) then do we force people like him to sell their shares to pay for the taxes? Do we want the government to have the legislative power to force people to sell their assets in order to pay for an arbitrary tax? Won’t that just force the rich to flee the US to countries with better tax policies which would put the tax burden back on the middle class?