Slacker News Slacker News logo featuring a lazy sloth with a folded newspaper hat
  • top
  • new
  • show
  • ask
  • jobs
Library

Comment by khuey

9 years ago

We tax real property, which is a form of wealth taxation.

3 comments

khuey

Reply

colanderman  9 years ago

Municipalities do, but the federal government does not.

saas_co_de  9 years ago

Right. The bank owns 100% of the property. The "owner" is underwater. And the owner pays property tax. So "wealth" taxation is perfectly fine for that situation.

Slacker News

Product

  • API Reference
  • Hacker News RSS
  • Source on GitHub

Community

  • Support Ukraine
  • Equal Justice Initiative
  • GiveWell Charities