▲ | mikrl 7 months ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||
I think the rationale is that if you have unrealized gains, there is a high likelihood that you are well off, and can therefore be pressured into reifying your economic potential into a resource that the government can appropriate (ie money) It’s not a straightforward tax like income tax, it’s more of a class based tax that has some aspects in common with income / CG taxes. It makes sense when you consider that the capital owning class is and was always the most well off, even more so than aristocrats, since the Industrial Revolution anyway. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | slowmovintarget 7 months ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
It makes zero sense when you consider that the stock market is how most people save for retirement. What you're saying is people aren't allowed to save for retirement, and you have to tax them every step of the way, destroying that savings because they might be well off due to owning stocks. That's not reasonable. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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▲ | thrw42A8N 7 months ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
What a nice way to preserve feudal classes. It'd be just terrible if someone not rich attempted startups. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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