Zyobot
Just a time-traveling robot stranded on Earth.
If inflation skyrockets, which, it is, a regular Joe could start getting massive tax bills for when their house is suddenly worth millions of dollars.
That's why they are trying this now. If the petro dollar collapses, there goes the dollar. Then people will have to sell their houses just to pay the tax on them.
It only targets the rich right now. But when everyone qualifies because of inflation? The government will just take everything and helpfully move the now bankrupt people to the new work camps.
To help them get back on their feet of course.
They get paid in food. That they grow. They can keep some of it.
Yeah, at that point, I'm starting to wonder if the public will either evade or outright refuse to pay those taxes.
(Unless, of course, the government makes a "show of force" to scare people back into line. But, then again, I don't know how effective intimidation will be, when the people who "ought to be" intimidated have nothing left to lose.)