Tax the 1 per cent with no other changes and all you get is the 1 per cent of the 1 per cent becoming even wealthier.
Sir, I refer to Richard Robb´s “If you tax the 1 percent it is the middle class who will suffer” May 16.
He is absolutely right and I have myself made similar arguments in an Op-Ed published in Venezuela about a month ago.
That said, what Robb misses is that 99 percent of the 1 percent would, though quite bearable, suffer too, because unless the current wealth concentration channels are altered, the resulting flows would just signify that the 1 percent of the 1 percent, the real plutocrats would become wealthier.
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