Taxing the sale as normal income doesn't prevent you from selling it, it simply closes a loophole that would make selling it more enticing than continuing to ru

Taxing the sale as normal income doesn't prevent you from selling it, it simply closes a loophole that would make selling it more enticing than continuing to run it yourself. If anything, it means that startups are more likely to stick around and turn into real businesses rather than being bought by salesforce and disappearing into corporate oblivion