Surprised by this framing of yours for what is clearly just a mob-style shakedown by the gangster in chief. Yes taxes are a social good, but that's not what's going on here. I mean, have we forgotten the Big Beautiful Bill? Just raise taxes. This kind of targeting is about influence and power.

Of course it's a shakedown. Of course HE'S a crook. But lmy point: ike other of his norm breakings and precedent settings, the idea could outlive him and open the way for sensible virtuous leders to use the new powers for good.

I think the overwhelming problem with U.S. tax policy is not that administrations haven't been picking and choosing specific entities to tax, but rather that income tax on the wealthy is way too low, there's too many legal avoidance schemes, and corporate taxes are on a worldwide race to the bottom

Agree. But what I’m talking about isn’t a tax, it’s us citizens, via the federal government, sharing in big profits of companies we invest in early, as private investors do.