I always thought he was just a wicked banjo player, because I remember that from the Hee Haw days. A few years ago, I found out he was a guitarist first. Blew my mind...specifically that clip, but his early stuff was pretty wild, too.
In no particular order:
Devin Townsend
Brian May
Tony Iommi
Dimebag Darrell
Django Reinhardt
Jorma Kaukonen
John McLaughlin
Jukka Tolonen
Steve Vai (DUH!)
Satch
Petrucci
Mike Keneally
Pat Methany
Michael Angelo Batio
Seriously, I could probably go on for a while with names if I keep digging...
Okay, that sounds a little more objective. So you want to slap a fat VAT on everything you purchase. That's the main difference between the US and Finland as far as taxation goes. Then...what happens to the money? :?
I question it mainly because I don't believe that is a solution to current perceived woes in society, in this case poverty.
Provincial taxes (with a few exceptions) will fund the Province (i.e. currency user), but the Federal level doesn't need to do that. Its motive is different, more...
The ability for Capital Flight is greatly enhanced in this day. One doesn't need to convert assets into bonds or "my precious" to hustle it around. Tax havens still exist along with loopholes. There were loopholes in those days, too, which is why those "nominal" rates had little impact.
The...
How will you apply those taxes? That is, how will you determine who has too much and how to take it away? If those people renounce their citizenship but still receive "rent," how will taxes do anything?
How much are they paying in gross, anyway?
Ideals can be great and noble, but they can be...
I imagine that figure is rounded.
That means it could be .005% to .014%.
Still, even taking the lower figure, that comes out to about 16250 families.
So, that yields a total income of $1.625 Tn.
That's not insignificant by any stretch of the imagination.
As for how they make it, "regular"...
So for every 1000 it equates to >$100 Bn/yr in an economy of $18.57 Tn (2016).
You say "a few thousand". Does that imply 3000 or more?
How do they receive their income, exactly? Do you wish to impede their access or...? :?