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Elizabeth Warren’s Wealth Tax Proposal Is Unconstitutional—and Why You Shouldn’t Believe Law Professors’ Claims to the Contrary

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Elizabeth Warren’s Wealth Tax Proposal Is Unconstitutional—and Why You Shouldn’t Believe Law Professors’ Claims to the Contrary
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) speaks during a town hall event in Norfolk, Virginia, in an Oct. 18, 2019, file photograph. Zach Gibson/Getty Images
Rob Natelson
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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-Mass.) proposal for a federal wealth tax is flatly unconstitutional. This is despite two letters of support from 17 law professors, who apparently signed their names without fully investigating the subject.

Rob Natelson
Rob Natelson
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Robert G. Natelson, a former constitutional law professor who is senior fellow in constitutional jurisprudence at the Independence Institute in Denver, authored “The Original Constitution: What It Actually Said and Meant” (3rd ed., 2015). He is a contributor to The Heritage Foundation’s “Heritage Guide to the Constitution.”
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