No, we wouldn’t. There is no role for the gov’t to play Handicapper General, and it’s no one’s business how much someone makes unless they’re gubmint stooges, in which case, I and every other taxpayer has every right to know their wages.
People sleep in the streets by choice, because they can’t be bothered with filling out one Monthly Reporting Form. Here in GR — a city of about a quarter million people — a few tenths of a percent (mostly male) are on food assistance (EBT cards are called “Bridge Cards” here), which is much easier to qualify for, but there is a load of food available basically for free at various well-known and frequented places in the downtown area known as “Heartside”.
Argentina has always always always gone the way of Sweden, which is exactly why they don’t have an economy like the US’.
My friends point was that while the Argentinians were always whining and complaining, they ought to fix their country which was in MUCH WORSE shape than Sweden. So, no, it has NOT gone the way of Sweden.
One proposal which made a certain amount of sense to me, but probably won’t to you, was to only allow upper echelon business salaries at 25 times workers pay to be allowed as a business tax deduction. Anything above that would not be a tax deduction for corporate tax filings.