How to prevent government shutdowns

If government shutdowns hurt oligarchs more than they hurt poor people, we would never have a government shutdown in this country.

Imagine we had a law that said that for every single day that the government is shutdown, the marginal income tax rate for that calendar year for people earning more than $10 million a year goes up by 0.1%. The longer the shutdown is, the more that oligarchs have to pay in income tax. No more shutdowns.

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Makes sense but would be massively prone to abuse.

Commies could just shut down the govt until all money is transferred to the Feds.

Completely not thought through.

No income tax is a better idea