Implement Progressive Tax Reform and Equalize Capital Gains

This remedy aims to address wealth concentration by aligning tax structures with labor income and restoring progressive fiscal redistribution. Follow these steps:

1. Eliminate Preferential Capital Gains Tax Rates: Amend tax codes to tax capital gains at the same effective marginal rates as ordinary labor income, removing the systemic advantage currently afforded to passive investment wealth.
2. Adjust Top-Tier Marginal Income Tax Brackets: Re-establish higher marginal tax rates for the top 0.1% of earners to restore the historical effective tax rates present during periods of lower wealth concentration.
3. Implement Wealth-Based Taxation Metrics: Introduce targeted levies on extreme concentrations of net worth that exceed established socioeconomic thresholds, ensuring the tax-to-GDP ratio for top-tier earners aligns with current public infrastructure and social safety net funding requirements.
4. Verification of Success: Monitor the Gini Coefficient and the effective tax rate of the top 1% annually. The fix is verified when the share of national income captured by the top tier begins to stabilize or decline relative to median wage growth, and the tax-to-GDP ratio for high-income brackets shows a consistent upward trend toward historical norms.

Precautions: Ensure that legislative implementation includes robust anti-avoidance measures to prevent capital flight and the use of tax shelters by high-net-worth individuals.

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