“Why should the rich get to take all that wealth with them when they move? Why should they be able to walk out of the country with resources that they have accumulated largely by dint of their history in the U.S.? We don’t let them walk out with a share of the mineral wealth of public lands or a piece of the interstate system. Exiting the country with all that property should surely count as theft. … The rate of the exit tax would reflect the proportion of wealth that is due to the lottery of birth. Of course, rich people have already paid some taxes on that wealth—so, in fairness, the top rate probably wouldn’t go above 50 percent.”
http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/35859/Bloomberg-Calls-for-a-US-Exit-Tax-on-the-Horizon/
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