"Rather than failing to build the economy by reducing taxes on the wealthy, we need to actually build the economy by creating a strong foundation of purchasing power in the working class by ending poverty and economic insecurity... [I]nstitute a wealth tax, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman of the University of California, Berkeley, proposed taxing wealth in excess of $50 million at 2 percent per year and wealth above $1 billion at an additional 1 percent tax. This would affect only seventy-five thousand households and would raise some $2.8 trillion over a decade."

Source: Howie Hawkins, "Tax Day 2019: Time to End Taxes to Confront Inequality and Implement an Ecosocialist Green New Deal," howiehawkins.us, Apr. 15, 2019