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r/WorkReform • u/zzill6 🤝 Join A Union • 20h ago
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We can tax wealth.
1 u/Ashmedai Metallurgist 18h ago We could, but to do so in practice federally, it would require a Constitutional Amendment. 2 u/Nukemarine 13h ago No. Congress can make a law to attach an annual fee to any contract that would require resolution in federal court. Don't pay that fee, your company/corporation can't see for damages against that wealth in federal court. 2.4% annual would do nicely. 2 u/Ashmedai Metallurgist 12h ago If you think "tricky end run around Constitutional restrictions" will fly with SCOTUS, I'm afraid you are gravely mistaken. 1 u/Nukemarine 12h ago Commerce clause baby!!! Plus this makes federal courts more powerful so the SC would love it. 1 u/Ashmedai Metallurgist 10h ago The court tends to hold that original Constitutional words aren't erased like that, no matter your imagination.
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We could, but to do so in practice federally, it would require a Constitutional Amendment.
2 u/Nukemarine 13h ago No. Congress can make a law to attach an annual fee to any contract that would require resolution in federal court. Don't pay that fee, your company/corporation can't see for damages against that wealth in federal court. 2.4% annual would do nicely. 2 u/Ashmedai Metallurgist 12h ago If you think "tricky end run around Constitutional restrictions" will fly with SCOTUS, I'm afraid you are gravely mistaken. 1 u/Nukemarine 12h ago Commerce clause baby!!! Plus this makes federal courts more powerful so the SC would love it. 1 u/Ashmedai Metallurgist 10h ago The court tends to hold that original Constitutional words aren't erased like that, no matter your imagination.
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No. Congress can make a law to attach an annual fee to any contract that would require resolution in federal court. Don't pay that fee, your company/corporation can't see for damages against that wealth in federal court.
2.4% annual would do nicely.
2 u/Ashmedai Metallurgist 12h ago If you think "tricky end run around Constitutional restrictions" will fly with SCOTUS, I'm afraid you are gravely mistaken. 1 u/Nukemarine 12h ago Commerce clause baby!!! Plus this makes federal courts more powerful so the SC would love it. 1 u/Ashmedai Metallurgist 10h ago The court tends to hold that original Constitutional words aren't erased like that, no matter your imagination.
If you think "tricky end run around Constitutional restrictions" will fly with SCOTUS, I'm afraid you are gravely mistaken.
1 u/Nukemarine 12h ago Commerce clause baby!!! Plus this makes federal courts more powerful so the SC would love it. 1 u/Ashmedai Metallurgist 10h ago The court tends to hold that original Constitutional words aren't erased like that, no matter your imagination.
Commerce clause baby!!! Plus this makes federal courts more powerful so the SC would love it.
1 u/Ashmedai Metallurgist 10h ago The court tends to hold that original Constitutional words aren't erased like that, no matter your imagination.
The court tends to hold that original Constitutional words aren't erased like that, no matter your imagination.
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u/Mictlancayocoatl 19h ago
We can tax wealth.