A good way to distort an economic system is to tax wealth rather than output. Wealth will flee, hide, and find loopholes. If you raise taxes on income, all types, that is a better path.
Another way would be to print lots of money and redistribute it until you've satisfied your equality threshold.
The market/price system is the world largest information system. Printing money distorts that system and make it function poorly and throughout history has been disastrous.