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America’s Death Tax Has Caused Far More Problems Than It Has Solved

Proposals for new wealth taxes show that envy, and its sister vice, greed, are very much back in fashion today on the left.

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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, wearing a dress that says 'Tax the Rich,' at the Met Gala in 2021. Via YouTube
STEPHEN MOORE
STEPHEN MOORE

“I have no respect for the passion of equality,” Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., one of America’s great jurists, once declared, “which seems to me merely idealizing envy.” 

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STEPHEN MOORE
STEPHEN MOORE

Mr. Moore is an economics journalist, author, and columnist. He is the chief economist for the Institute for Economic Freedom and Opportunity, and a regular contributor at The Wall Street Journal, Fox News, CNN and CNBC.

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