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Is that revenue, or profit? If revenue, it'll slam certain kinds of high-volume low-profit businesses, and if it's profit then the company will just arrange to have big compensation "expenses" for executives.

The latter would have to be backstopped by taxes on individual income.



The sane version of this proposal omits the "exponential" part, applies to profits (net income), and makes the tax rate industry-specific (just like Washington State's revenue tax).


revenue, obviously, but maybe it would scale with employee numbers... if you have lots of employees, you get taxed less.


So the policy goal is to minimize revenue per employee?


Set limits so the top cant earn more than x times the lowest paid in the company then.


Companies would then outsource their low-paying jobs to other companies.


So make that count then.


They already do




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