No, The Framers Would Have Hated The Billionaire Tax

No, The Framers Would Have Hated The Billionaire Tax Authored by Jonathan Turley, Below is my column in the Wall Street Journal on the bizarre claim of Gov. Gavin Newsom and others that the Framers would have supported wealth taxes, including the proposed Billionaire’s Tax. It is a claim that seeks to mask the economically unwise with the historically unfounded. The Framers sought to protect property from legislative redistributive impulses. James Madison wrote that the bicamera...

By Tyler Durden