• krisevol@lemmus.org
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    2 months ago

    Plus it didn’t explain were the money comes from. Bazos makes 80k a year, and his stocks go up in value which is why good net worth goes up. If we taxes his unrealized gains where the money come from?

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      2 months ago

      We need a way to tax when stock valuation is used as collateral for loans and revolving credit, enabling people from Bezos to have paper income of 80K and realizing gains without actually realizing gains. A general wealth tax, especially on unrealized gains, is obviously dumb, but the ghost gains loophole needs to be closed.

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      2 months ago

      They have to sell part of there action. If I can’t pay a debt, can i tell them you can’t smake me sell my actions to reimburse my debt…

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        2 months ago

        So every billionaire is going to selling stocks. You do realize the owners is these stocks are going to either be china or Black Rock if that happens. They are the only ones that would be able to afford to buy them. It would be a massive transfer of weath to big corporations or even worse a foreign country.

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          2 months ago

          An idea I’ve come across is to tax the shares directly into a fund held by the IRS to be sold over time on the market. I haven’t extensively thought through it myself, but that could help spread the buying period allowing more people/orgs to afford to buy it. Also helps the market not crash every year when everyone is forced to sell.

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            2 months ago

            So basically lower the stock returns by devaluing the gains and giving Black Rock all our stocks. The only thing i see happening with that is it’s people are not going to be able to retire and they will need to work more because the returns in the market will vaporize their chance to retire.

            When the rich move to inventing in hard assets instead of the market, housing will go up as investors buy up the market. Meaning taxing the unraised gains will cause more people to be priced out of housing as well.