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TIL in 1999 Ted Turner proposed a one-time tax on the rich. He proposed a 14.25% tax on the net worth of all Americans worth 10 million or more. It would have gathered $5.7 Trillion dollars. Due to the growth of wealth among the super-rich, today it would gather $15 Trillion.

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