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Let's play the rich get everything. The rules are the rich get everything. participation is mandatory. (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Did I say mandatory? I meant optional! You're "free" to die in a cardboard box under a freeway as a market capitalist scarecrow warning to the other ants so they keep showing up to make us more!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I was talking about withholding, where I pay taxes that will never come due. On reflection maybe isn't a perfect analogy.

You haven't made a persuasive argument (or any argument really) against, you just keep insisting it's a bad idea.

One thing that stands out is you keep referring to "money that may never exist". That's not how tax works. You are taxed on the basis of your income, which is often but not always monetary. This is both intuitive and consistent with existing tax code. If you don't like it you have a much bigger problem than objecting to taxing unrealized cap gains.