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This won't eat the rich at all. It will only lock out the poor from participating in investments. An unrealized gains tax is effectively a prepayment on your eventual realized gains.

It'll make stock investments unattainable for the cash poor. If you're taxed on unrealized gains you have to pay tax on earnings you haven't actually earned (and may never actually earn). The cash poor will not be able to pay this tax and therefore cannot invest. The rich can pay it as they have liquid cash on the sidelines.

Taxing unrealized gains ultimately becomes a timing issue. Once a security is realized, you end up at the same net amount of tax paid (you pay more upfront and less upon disposition). A tax on unrealized gains is effectively a prepayment on your realized gains. The rich who can afford to prepay will not pay any additional taxes net. This will not eat the rich but simply lock out the poor.

This gets crazier because if the unrealized gain turns into unrealized loss later down the line, how is that handled? Is the government going to provide a rebate/return on the difference? Tax basis is already a nightmare to deal with as-is, this is just another massive layer of complication to add on top. Just on data volume alone, this will likely add, on avg 5-10x more transactions to process. And thats not taking into consideration the significantly more complicated rules/exceptions that will need to be put in place and the level of additional rollforward tracking required for the lifetime of every position. This will become an absolute logistical nightmare from a tax accounting perspective.

So, basically, bullshit

Yeah, but she's kind of a boner shrinker

No gains 😂😂

Good, cause I can't play sh!t right now 😂😂😂

Replying to Avatar MeredithAnne

Will I be able to play the Piano in my new shoes?? 😂😂

Yeah, majillions 💰 to make

Replying to Avatar Tim Bouma

Excellent points made by nostr:npub1dtgg8yk3h23ldlm6jsy79tz723p4sun9mz62tqwxqe7c363szkzqm8up6m. We are still early…

The reason I am here on #nostr because I feel the same vibe of what it was like in 1993, before the web went big in 1995 (Netscape IPO). I haven’t felt that vibe for over 30 years and now it’s back on #nostr.

Back then, corporate websites were managed by ‘webmasters’, usually by folks who took time out of their D&D gaming to learn html. Big Newspapers dabbled in html websites, but nobody thought they would replace that thing that landed in your driveway every morning.

Fast forward, 30+ years, I can honestly say that I believe we are on the cusp of something new. Back then, it was about information being immediately available everywhere. Now it’s about authenticity+money being available everywhere - baked in the protocol for you to judge and decide - not part of a commercial platform who does that for you.

Who knows what the future will bring? I am confident that I don’t know, but I am willing to be a ‘possibilian’ - trying out possibilities, building/experimenting whether they work out or not.

In the end, those who are asking for first class services on the Wright Bros. Airline, they might not get it, brothers are still getting the plane off the ground.

Be patient. Be positive. Be a possibilian! nostr:note1e8gzpmeum8tqzqg6sjkuxge7v764h9x49n7e000as0x40lpekazqfhwk8f

Well said!

For me, the feeling of "new" comes from being free of centralized platforms and their algorithms. It all feels too contrived

#Nostr is a breath of fresh air and truly holds the promise of the next iteration of the web