#Bestof2021: 2/2: The Constitution and the fair-share rhetoric. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst HFN
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 19 December 2023
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https://www.hoover.org/research/tax-schemes-wont-pay
Treasury Building
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| 0:00.0 | Preparations everything in this game. |
| 0:01.8 | Some things can catch you like a heavy challenge on a cold Tuesday night in stoke. |
| 0:06.4 | Or not having your full pension when you're ready for it. |
| 0:08.8 | Happened to me, providers gone bust. |
| 0:11.0 | But mine was FSCS protected the financial services compensation scheme |
| 0:15.8 | every year thousands of people lose money in their pension |
| 0:19.3 | FSCS can protect your money when authorized financial providers and advisors go bust. |
| 0:24.7 | It's down to you to check your pensions protected. |
| 0:28.2 | Search FSCS online. This is a series of cebes I in the world. I'm John Bachelor with Professor Richard Epstein |
| 0:39.0 | who's helping me understand tax proposals not only in Rome at the G20 meeting, not only in theory about |
| 0:45.9 | the flat tax, but also about the Biden administration and the Congress now proposing to tax wealth, tax assets, unrealized assets. |
| 0:57.0 | Richard, the puzzle for me is when you tax well-to-do people and at one point Senator Wyden of the Democratic |
| 1:05.0 | Senate said that this is only about 700 people in America. That requires you to have a |
| 1:12.0 | policing mechanism and restrictions that seem to me excessively |
| 1:16.4 | overwhelming. |
| 1:18.2 | And also you've got to presume that your targets in this instance, the 700 wealthy people are going to adapt. |
| 1:26.4 | So in that adaptation doesn't that lead to endless changes of strategy and tactics by the taxing authority to catch up to those |
| 1:37.1 | billionaires? Yes, it always has. Look, just start with the simple progressive tax that we had which is nearly as |
| 1:44.1 | steep as the thing we're going what happens is people face this and so they say look I |
| 1:48.8 | don't want to pay a very very high tax on 10 million dollars I'm going to put it into a family trust. I'm going to make sure that |
| 1:55.2 | the six of my children and relatives are going to be in it. So instead of having $10 million for me, |
| 2:00.8 | what we do is we have $16 million dollars for everybody inside the family |
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