Love this theory. Let's run it.
A sophomore builds a company out of his dorm room.
Eats ramen, sleeps four hours, ships something nobody else could. A venture fund takes one look and says it's worth a billion dollars.
Overnight, a kid with $40 in his account is a billionaire on paper.
The campus loses its mind.
One student worth a billion while everyone else drowns in loans?
Student government passes a resolution.
Tax him 5% a year, fund everyone's tuition. It's only 5%.
He'd still be worth more than the entire graduating class combined. You don't think that's worth it?
So they send him the bill.
Except he doesn't have a billion dollars.
He has $40 and a company a stranger guessed was worth a billion, as long as HE kept running it.
To pay the tax, he has to sell.
The moment he sells, the market learns the founder is cashing out to cover a tax he can't afford.
The valuation collapses. The investors walk away.
Now the company is dead.
The twelve people he was about to hire never get hired.
And the tuition fund that was supposed to come out of his billion contains exactly $40.
The campus is stunned.
We ran the math.
Five percent of a billion is real money.
Where did it go?
It was never money.
It was a bet on a PERSON AND THEIR IDEAS, and you cannot endlessly tax a bet without killing the thing it was betting on.
How are you this stupid?