“Net worth narrows your target for this supplemental tax to those around age 55 who will have paid off their 30-yr mortgages - those past their peak earning years, least able to absorb a thousand dollar hit... “
The exemption goes up by age.
Two 55-year olds get an $11,000 tax exemption together, $5,500 each.
People with a paid up $500,000 house and $150,000 in common stock can pay a $1,000 tax.
How about we fine lobster-eating foodstamps slacker dudes and basement dwellers $1000 annually for being worthless to society, instead of going after workers who have supported the system their entire lives and managed to achieve some personal gain?
You know what will ‘cure’ the natl debt? - return of industry to the US and 200+ million people working and paying income taxes (about half of the actual population) as opposed to what we had pre-Trump: one-third of the population trying to support two-thirds of the population with the two-thirds demanding more and more money from the one-third.