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just temporarily embarrassed billionaires, one good idea or lottery ticket from making it rich
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We need a way to tax when stock valuation is used as collateral for loans and revolving credit, enabling people from Bezos to have paper income of 80K and realizing gains without actually realizing gains. A general wealth tax, especially on unrealized gains, is obviously dumb, but the ghost gains loophole needs to be closed.
Bottom line is that stock valuation shouldn't be allowed to be use for collateral. If it doesn't exist for tax purposes, then it doesn't exist for collateral purposes. You want billions of dollars to play with? Liquidate your assets, pay your taxes, and have fun.
The system was obviously created as a tax dodge. We don't have to act like it's all over, they won, and there is nothing to be done. We can change it, and take away their tax dodge that is painfully parasitic on our society.
Just come up with a variable and if your total loans for the year (using speculative assets as collateral) are above that amount, the assets are taxed as realized gains. And the loan as income.
My thought is the limit should be 100x the annual take home pay of the bottom 20% of workers. Currently that's about $1.6m. It has the bonus of needing to increase worker pay for cheaper loans.