Anyone remember what nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe said about if we taxed the billionaires at a 100% rate, that it would only pay a tiny percent of the US debt? What percent was it?

I remember him talking about it, but do not remember the exact figure.

Per ChatGPT: "According to a 2019 analysis, confiscating all of the wealth from U.S. billionaires, which was around $5 trillion at the time, would fund the federal government for only about eight months. This would equate to covering only a small percentage of the total U.S. debt, which is over $33 trillion today."

This equates to 15% of the national debt, or 8 months of government spending.

Bear in mind, this isn't taxing them 100%, this is if we confiscated 100% of their wealth...

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Thanks yes that was the number!