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Taxing labor isn't theft but taxing capital gains is? How does it make sense to want to tax the direct products of someone's time and energy and direct contribu

Taxing labor isn't theft but taxing capital gains is? How does it make sense to want to tax the direct products of someone's time and energy and direct contribution to society, and not want to tax the gains of sitting on capital assets while central banks pump them up? "Stop auditing people who are making less than $5m/year in income." If P(audit) literally equals zero, all rational agents will stop paying tax.

ryanSrich 4y ago
> Taxing labor isn't theft but taxing capital gains is? In an ideal world all taxation would go away and the IRS would be abolished. In the real world we have to work with what’s feasible, and I think killing capital gains tax could be a feasible platform to run on as a leader. > If P(audit) literally equals zero, all rational agents will stop paying tax. If you’re making over $5m and are pretty much guaranteed to be audited, why would you stop paying taxes?
- hackerlight 4y ago
  Well I'm not an anarchist so I believe we need some taxes. Labor tax is the highest priority for elimination, and there should be more buy in for that idea because the middle class benefits more, since most of their living comes from incomes than capital gains. Capital gains tax is good if the loopholes are fixed such as cost basis resetting upon death. Otherwise we need a global wealth tax, negotiated between the EU and US to avoid capital flight. Such a tax is actually good because it improves the quality of our democracy by reducing the ability for ultra wealthy people to enact their crony capitalist corruption. This is a unique reason to tax capital wealth that isn't applicable to labor taxes. "If you’re making over $5m and are pretty much guaranteed to be audited, why would you stop paying taxes?" I'm talking about people under $5m

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Taxing labor isn't theft but taxing capital gains is? How does it make sense to want to tax the direct products of someone's time and energy and direct contribu

by hackerlight 4y ago

ryanSrich 4y ago
> Taxing labor isn't theft but taxing capital gains is? In an ideal world all taxation would go away and the IRS would be abolished. In the real world we have to work with what’s feasible, and I think killing capital gains tax could be a feasible platform to run on as a leader. > If P(audit) literally equals zero, all rational agents will stop paying tax. If you’re making over $5m and are pretty much guaranteed to be audited, why would you stop paying taxes?
- hackerlight 4y ago
  Well I'm not an anarchist so I believe we need some taxes. Labor tax is the highest priority for elimination, and there should be more buy in for that idea because the middle class benefits more, since most of their living comes from incomes than capital gains. Capital gains tax is good if the loopholes are fixed such as cost basis resetting upon death. Otherwise we need a global wealth tax, negotiated between the EU and US to avoid capital flight. Such a tax is actually good because it improves the quality of our democracy by reducing the ability for ultra wealthy people to enact their crony capitalist corruption. This is a unique reason to tax capital wealth that isn't applicable to labor taxes. "If you’re making over $5m and are pretty much guaranteed to be audited, why would you stop paying taxes?" I'm talking about people under $5m