“taking a bit of money from the Elon Musks of the world” just isn’t going to do it. Let’s say we take *all* the income from the top 1%, or about $2.6T. That gives us about $7,800 per person to redistribute. But we already take about 1/3, so there’s only enough income there to give everyone $5200 per year. Realistically, you can’t take all their income, so let’s say we move the effective rates to 50% from 30% (I’m talking total tax rate here, not marginal). That gives us about $1600 per per…