How much Wealth (and hence Power) should one person/family be ALLOWED to accumulate? [View all]

[Junkdrawer]

If you say "No limits", then how do you handle the most obvious contradiction at the heart of Capitalism:

The more money you have, the more power you have, the more money you have, the more power you have, ad infinitum.

Today, the top 400 families in America have over half of the wealth. Should we wait until 10 families control 90% of the wealth?

I think the Trust Busting efforts of the early 20th Century is what gave us the quasi-democratic reprieve of the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s.

When Reagan stopped enforcing Anti-Trust laws, democracy began it's current slide.

Taxing WEALTH as opposed to INCOME is probably the most radical idea I can think of short of armed revolution. It's also LONG overdue.