How Wealth Tax Is Better Than Income Tax

Wealth Tax
Do you want to move money from the wealthy to the poor? Well, tax wealth.
Wealth tax causes far less market distortion, and hence, much fairer than income tax. Wealth tax hurt productivity less. If you live in a capitalistic country, then your income is yours fairly. However, Bob?s wealth might not be traceable to productivity. Bob might have gotten his wealth through inheritance gained through slavery, or genocide. The link between wealth to productivity is less than the link between incomes and productivity. Hence, wealth tax discourages productivity less than income tax.
Wealth tax also has meritocratic justification that can actually increase productivity. Property rights are effectively contracts between a person and the society. Pa View the rest of this article