Comment on Gary Stevenson: 'Tax wealth or we'll return to the feudal age'
Koarnine@pawb.social 3 weeks agoWe should absolutely be taxing wealth, if we don’t the economy will continue to become more and more in the hands of fewer and fewer.
Wealth should be taxed, if you can take loans out against the value of your stocks, then that should be taxed.
The only other workable solution is to make those types of loans illegal, then taxes on realised gains can actually be utilised.
If not, we should absolutely be taxing wealth, otherwise the wealthiest will continue to not pay their fair share.
GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“Not pay their fair share” when they each literally pay more than the bottom like 50% combined is an odd thing to say.
Koarnine@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
No its not, thats mostly untrue, if they paid their fair share they wouldnt have such obscene wealth. Thats the only way to accumulate suh wealth, fraud.
GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s a completely void of all logic conclusion you’ve come to.
How do you define a “fair share”? Does someone being taxed on the value of all of their assets, including unrealised gains, every year compared to someone who pays only tax on their income, seem “fair”? How?
Koarnine@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
When the richest don’t have any income, and therefore don’t pay any income tax, it’s not ever going to be fair. They got that rich through exploitation of public goods and services and refuse to pay back in to the system that made them. We must tax wealth as too many have ‘passive income’ in the form of unrealised gains on stocks which they never sell, they take loans out against their value and continuously buy more and more assets until there is nothing left.