As per Piketty's 'Capital in the 21st Century', there has been a constant growth of inequality in capitalism that has only ever been significantly reduced (and immensely so) by world wars. Given that perpetual growth of inequality creates oligarchies and oligarchies make major conflicts more likely, this could prove to be a consistent pattern in capitalism.
What if we ended this issue with a global treaty creating a 90% inheritance tax in every signatory nation? It would need to be global to avoid people becoming expats to bequeath their fortune. Issues such as stocks could be dealt with by liquidating those stocks (potentially offering them to the board of the company to purchase before offering them on the market).
The major issue it would create would be an excessively large state. However, built into the treaty could be vague (as to the particulars) regulations on how the money is to be spent (so as to avoid totalitarian despotism). If the money had to be directed to a limited degree towards administration, then following administration to education, then to healthcare (or, following administration, some combination of factors that are beneficial and least open to corruption) it shouldn't simply create a long line of dictators.
As to political efficacy. Given the power and popularity this could confer on a state, it seems reasonable that states could be willing to participate. Additionally, the long-standing rejection of inheritance taxes should be mountable with slogans around paying your taxes when you're dead. The policy shift should be stable if income tax is debased following significant accumulation of inheritance tax revenue (no one will back a policy that means they have to start paying large taxes again; this would be more important to most people than giving their children large inheritances).
Any thoughts for or against?
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