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Conveniently glossing over the fact that we, in a normal world, would only be using the AI to look at all of their stuff and not ours. Stupid idea all around.
Why can’t we just use the numbers we already have? I mean they say Musk is worth x amount, Bezos owns x amount. They get those big numbers from somewhere. Tell them how much tax they owe based on how much they theoretically own. They can pay their taxes with their theoretically valuable stocks/shares whatever. They are going to be all like, “I can’t afford that. Nobody has that much money!”
To which we will say, “Fine then, uh give me that super yacht right there and 10 super cars and we will let you start a payment plan.”
If people don’t pay their taxes the government can seize their property to cover it, right? This is how we can achieve the reduction of billionaire wealth and find a path to balancing out all of the money we owe ourselves from all the government shenanigans over the last century or so.
You're trying to be fair while they are hanging you by the toes, beating you with a rake, and then catching the nickels that fall out.
Then they use that money to buy more rakes, and do that to everyone you know until they've robbed the entire world.
They're not planning a fair fight. They never have fought fair once in their entire lifetime. The more you fight fair, the more people die horribly.
How is taxing someone an unreasonable amount of money based on what seems to be an arbitrary gross calculation of their apparent wealth with the intention of taking their assets to pay for it fighting fair?
To actually be fair, I would prefer my government be more fair than less fair as a general rule.