Here's something to know about Vivek Ramaswamy, who wants to be the Republican front-man for president: He favors a confiscatory inheritance tax – which he says will promote a "meritocracy" by dint of eliminating the "problem" (as he sees it) of an unearned advantage possessed by people whose parents leave them a substantial sum of money.

Or even any money.

He says that the state seizing – and redistributing – the accumulated wealth of a lifetime of work is "a way of redistributing duty." The "duty," apparently, to turn over what you've earned to the government.