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Oregonians will be pay for college until their late 40s? What about the next tech billionaire. Will he pay USD 30 million for every billion he makes?

• alex-g 13y ago
  My heart bleeds.
• arethuza 13y ago
  I would have thought that something like this would be based on income, not capital gains.
  • fosap 13y ago
    In my understanding of the word capital gains are a subset of income.
    • arethuza 13y ago
      Probably my UK bias showing - we have separate income and capital-gains taxes so I am used to thinking of them as different things although, as you point out, they are both "income".
    • jlal 13y ago
      But capital gains aren't taxed as income. http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/06/05/why-capital-gains-should-be-taxed-as-income/ http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/06/05/why-capital...
• pessimizer 13y ago
  Why not? The state is gambling, shouldn't it be allowed to win?