I'm fairly finance-illiterate so very much enjoy reading this kind of article, thanks for sharing! What I find interesting - outside of the practical question of how governments can raise revenue through taxes, or how people exploit legal loopholes to avoid paying them - is the moral question around taking people's money: one which is particularly prevalent in America.

It baffles me how so many working class Americans see taxing the super-rich as some kind of affront to their values, as if by taking money away from Bezos, America will be any less 'American'. Reminds me of the Ronald Wright quote:

"John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."