A universal basic income funded by higher taxes on top incomes should guarantee every adult a minimum cash floor. In other words, a universal basic income is a regular cash payment provided without a work requirement or means test.

State funding should equalize per-pupil school resources across wealthy and poor districts, even when it requires transferring local tax revenue. In other words, fiscal equalization shifts revenue so jurisdictions with different tax bases can provide more comparable services.

Long-term care for older adults and people with severe disabilities should be publicly guaranteed and financed according to ability to pay. In other words, long-term care includes ongoing help with daily living in homes, community settings, or residential facilities.

Very large financial inheritances should face progressive taxation, with clearly defined exemptions for genuinely operating family businesses. In other words, an estate tax is assessed on transferred wealth at death; progressive rates rise with the size of the taxable estate.

People who signed standard student loans should generally repay them rather than receive broad cancellation funded by taxpayers who did not borrow. In other words, broad cancellation forgives debt across a large class of borrowers rather than only in cases such as fraud, disability, or insolvency.

Owner-occupied homes should not be subject to an annual wealth tax merely because neighborhood values have risen. In other words, an annual wealth tax is based on the value of owned assets rather than only on income or a sale.

A flat income tax with a generous personal exemption is fairer than progressively higher marginal tax rates. In other words, a flat tax applies one marginal rate above an exemption; a progressive system applies higher marginal rates to higher income brackets.

Charitable donors should be free to restrict privately funded scholarships to members of their own community even when equally needy outsiders apply. In other words, a donor-directed restriction uses private funds but limits eligibility according to community membership.

Religious schools receiving public funds should follow the same nondiscrimination rules as other publicly funded schools, even when those rules conflict with doctrine. In other words, a religious school could choose whether to accept public money, but accepting it would require following the same equal-treatment rules as other publicly funded schools.

Society should prevent individuals from accumulating fortunes large enough to create lasting private political and economic power. In other words, taxes or other rules should stop any one person from becoming extraordinarily wealthy, even when the wealth was acquired legally.

Government should provide material reparations to descendants of groups subjected to state-backed slavery or comparable systematic dispossession. In other words, public money or assets should compensate descendants for major historical injustices whose effects continue across generations.

People should be free to become billionaires when their wealth is acquired lawfully, even if the resulting inequality is extremely large. In other words, government should not impose a maximum fortune merely because one person becomes vastly richer than most others.

Individuals should be allowed to own multiple homes as investments and charge market rents even during a severe housing shortage. In other words, housing scarcity should not by itself remove an owner’s right to buy rental property and set rent through voluntary agreements.