Things still get complicated there. What is the value of a car? I'm not planning on selling mine, so I have no idea. Do I just Blue Book it? If I key the sh

Things still get complicated there. What is the value of a car? I'm not planning on selling mine, so I have no idea. Do I just Blue Book it? If I key the shit out of it every Christmas and then have it repainted in January, can I knock 40% of the value off? It might be cheaper to just have it repainted. What's the value of a painting? You could use the price I bought it for, but what if we just swap paintings instead? You know, I give you this fancy painting, you give me some Goodwill shit and you pay me a $100k "finders fee". What's a yacht worth? What are super fancy houses worth? One of Mike Tyson's old mansions is still abandoned, so I assume it was worth nothing since they couldn't sell it. Properly valuing things is hard. Wealth taxes are also regressive, in a way, because poor people are much less likely to have access to financial instruments that will return greater than the wealth tax rate. The poor and the middle class are far more likely to have their money in functional investments (homes, cars, etc) than they are to have them in something that generates profit. So you'd still have to just not assess the tax on assets under the value of a reasonable home and car, at which point we're basically just back to what we have now, which is carving out a loophole for the poor.