By hoard I meant &quot;be the owner of&quot;. Doesn&#x27;t matter if it&#x27;s cash, real estate, stocks, bonds or shares in a lemonade stand.<p>Call it all wealth and throw a % on it. Make it progressively increase up and 0% on anything less than $X. We could call it a Robin Hood tax.<p>This will also have the incentive of causing the wealthy to invest in riskier things. Ex: 5% growth doesn&#x27;t make sense with a 6% wealth tax.<p><i>EDIT: Moved some sentences around.</i>