Comment by dwa3592

22 days ago

Good attempt at manipulation. Why don't you link some studies here which say it will be better to leave the tax system as is than taxing the unrealized gains somehow.

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phyzix5761  22 days ago

The numbers are self evident. If you've ever owned a business you know that you have:

1. Corporate income tax 2. Employee Federal income tax 3. FICA Payroll Tax 4. Sales Tax on transactions 5. Property Taxes

Now multiply that by each node on the graph. Each employee, vendor, business that comes in contact with your company spends the money you paid them and is taxed on it as well. It grows exponentially after just a couple of nodes. If each of those nodes is trying to make a profit from their own capital it generates even more tax revenue for the government.

Contrast that with capital gains tax which is a 1 time event at a maximum of 20%. That 20% needs to be taken out of the business in order to pay the taxes if you're going to tax unrealized gains. That means that 20% only gets taxed once instead of going through the graph and getting taxed exponentially many more times as it grows.

  • smallmancontrov  22 days ago

    "I shouldn't be taxed because my employees and customers will be!"

    Folks, we've found it! Pure, distilled, refined, 100.0%, 200-proof trickle down economics!

    Just one teeny tiny itty bitty problem: r>g

    Oops.

    • WarmWash  22 days ago

      You're getting confused because you are failing to recognize that the owners wealth is being taxed when those other taxes are paid.

      If the company had a magical exemption from all taxes, the owner would have a substantially high net worth. The gap between that hypothetical value, and the real value, is the tax being paid.

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  • xracy  21 days ago

    Gotta love "I don't need to show my work! It's self-evident!"

    It's not self-evident, or the person wouldn't have asked for a source.

    And you have numbers that you're pulling from "somewhere" without sharing a source for them, which means it's even further not self-evident.