A 1.5% annual stock dilution tax on corporations with revenue over $100M would raise over $1.4 trillion a year — enough to send every American about $365 a month, automatically.
Corporations issue new stock all the time — to raise cash, to pay executives, to swallow up other companies. So here’s a question: what if they had to issue a little new stock to the rest of us, too? I call it a stock dilution tax, and I think it’s the cleanest way to pay for a universal basic income (UBI) with a wealth tax. Make every large corporation mint 1.5% in fresh shares each year, sell them off slowly, and hand the proceeds to every American — roughly $365 a month, with no new bureaucracy and nowhere for the wealthy to hide from it.
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