UBI and/or Friedman's concept of a negative income tax need to be considered as well.
I would also like a wealth tax. There's some upper limit whether it be $10M, $100M or $1B of personal wealth that is reasonable. It could be tied to multiples of median household income or something. IMO, when we still have children without access to proper nutritional needs and other resources to allow them to thrive while also having hundred billionaires, there is a problem. In the depth of a pandemic and high unemployment, billionaires are thriving, this seems immoral to me. Of course, if we had more Mackenzie Scotts, this would be less of a problem.
Raising the minimum standard of living for our citizenry will cause a lot of problems to go away.