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Sales tax fails to capture the accumulation of capital, so (1) is kind of bogus. If you make 100 billion dollars and invest it you and several generations of your family coild live comfortably without ever working and your tax burden would only depend on your spending.

A sales-only tax incentivized rent seeking, basically, because the rentiers pay the same taxes as the renters while accumulating capital.

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But what is investing other the attempt (aware or unaware) of creating wealth? When people make money, it means someone bought something from them. This means they had to create something other want. That can be a service, a good, or a house for rent. Remember that those who rent houses are people who can't afford to buy them, so they need someone with capital to manage the house. I am renting myself and I much prefer it at the moment to owning a house.

You want billionaires to keep their money, because unless they put it under their mattress, they are growing the economy, which means lowering prices and raising quality.

and so often it gets invested in land, which includes not just the sites under our feet, but vital natural resources, the kind that are finite in supply.

If you take a look at the data, "investing in land" wasn't as luxurious as it is today, due to government actions inflating the market.

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