The Price of Envy

Impact of the estate tax rate on growth and jobs.  This is just one model but it's probably reasonable.  Certainly these aren't wild numbers for a tax as distortive as the Estate tax.


The question is this: How many people's futures must be extinguished to sustain a statistical prejudice?  We wiped out 10 million or so to push the cargo cult statistic of home ownership up three or four digits, so how much to push something called a "gini index"?  Equality is not a statistic or a quantum of money, but a culture.

What price envy?