According to a summary of the bill released by the Patriotic Millionaires—an advocacy group that helped craft the measure—the wealth tax would have four brackets:
- 2% for all wealth between 1,000 and 10,000 times median household wealth;
- 4% for all wealth between 10,000 and 100,000 times median household wealth;
- 6% for all wealth between 100,000 and 1,000,000 times median household wealth; and
- 8% for all wealth over 1,000,000 times median household wealth;
"In the unlikely event median household wealth fell below $50,000 from its current level of about $120,000, the thresholds would be fixed at $50 million, $500 million, $5 billion, and $50 billion respectively.”
The legislation would also require at least a 30% IRS audit rate on households affected by the new wealth tax.
My post was specifically that we should increase amount paid via cap gains so I’m not sure where you’re going here
These are laws we’ve written, not magic. We can change them
Edit: also wealth taxes, historically, are among the easiest to avoid via accounting, and the hardest to “fix” as laws
My point is that increasing the amount paid via cap gains does absolutely nothing if the mega rich don’t need to pay it in the first place.