Also, from the OP article you didn't read:

Posted on: February 10, 2019 at 10:36:43 CT

"As Antony Davies noted , confiscating, for instance, the entire wealth of the 550 billionaires in the US, which would raise 2.5 trillion dollars, would be just enough to run the federal government for less than eight months. Washington’s problem is not revenue then, but spending."