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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] 1 points 3 months ago (10 children)

Can't have unrealized gains in a system that doesn't have stocks. Abolish the stock market.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

What's crazy is to calculate the average US income the census folks of the US government exclude billionaires because it would skew reality so much that people would call bullshit on the average with billionaires in the mix.

so they get to be excluded from the "average wage per family" calculations made and distributed by the government.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Would they be able to use unrealized losses and just end up paying less in taxes than they do now?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 months ago (6 children)

You're "free" to die in a cardboard box under a freeway

Actually... They made that illegal. You're free to rot in prison for being homeless, though!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Three hots and a cot is better than nothing…

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well then there's the forced labor.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn't be a huge fan of taxing unrealized gains if we hadn't been cutting taxes for the rich for 50 years. How else are we ever going to recover from that? These guys COULD have done the right thing and supported sensible taxation policies, but they didn't, so fuck 'em. At this point it's either this or the guillotine.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

TBH I'm not even considered middle class where I live but I have Unrealized Gains in the form of $VYM and Bitcoin.

I think we should tax loans where stocks are used as Collateral, or set a high bar for Unrealized Gains Tax.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

The bar being talked about right now is a net worth of 100million usd, do you have a net worth of 100million? If not your bitcoin is safe.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Maybe some current proposed legislature has set that bar, but this picture of a tweet does not talk about that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

That picture is referencing Kamala's proposed tax policy where she wants to tax unrealized capital gains on individuals worth 100mill exclusively

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The tweet does not say Kamala, it does not mention "The President's Budget" that was announced by Biden early this year, it just says that unrealized gains are not being taxed.

There is of course the implication of modern policy but I think it is healthy to include nuance and context as I have.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

It's almost like things can exist in a cultural context without explicitly defined connections.

Just say "oh, I didn't realize" instead of digging your heels in.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

That has been the baseline since the beginning. If you aren’t worth 100million there is no reason you shouldn’t support this.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago

You keep using that word, but I am not sure that you know what it means.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

But that means rich people will be slightly less rich. That will never happen.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Please vote for the Tax the Rich Party and not the Gut the IRS Party.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What party will actually tax the rich?

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