This is a good idea: a global tax on the very richest people on the planet. The reason it has to be global is because wealth - especially investment wealth - is highly mobile and there will always be a poor country that will lavish attention on the super-rich to get them to move there.
Enforcement becomes trickier, since the UN generally can't figure out how to open a paper bag with instructions, and you'd worry about pariah states like Russia ignoring international enforcement.
Still.
Imagine what a global wealth tax could do to create a global climate action fund.
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