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It would depend on how the justices interpreted the word "income".

Wealth is explicitly not income, so I don't know how any person would interpret a wealth tax being constitutional.

There are scholars on both sides of this: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/12/17/787476334/is-a...

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