IMF calls for wealth tax to help cover cost of Covid pandemic

theguardian.com

8 pointshmartiniano3 comments

Are we now to be held responsible for our policy maker's incompetency? The government should work for it's people, not the other way around. Had they considered the virus real, we wouldn't have had to seclude ourselves and stop the economy for over a year.

Taiwan, mainland China, Korea all have been living a perfectly normal life for the last 8 months. Mentioning those countries because I've actually spent a good amount of time there while the US government were shitting themselves.

To help meet pandemic-related financing needs, policymakers could consider a temporary Covid-19 recovery contribution...

Have temporary tax increases ever been rolled back after a year or two?

Never.

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