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kadabra9today at 3:05 AM1 replyview on HN

I support some sort of disincentive to prevent HNW individuals from borrowing against assets for income.

I do not support wealth taxes or taxing unrealized gains (unless you get rebates for unrealized losses lol)

There SHOULD be some mechanism (idk what) to close the loophole of HNW individuals borrowing against an asset you have not sold to minimize actual income, but that doesn't mean its right, effective, or even legal to just mass tax all unrealized gains, just because this specific loophole exists currently.

So yeah, it is a separate discussion.


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lovichtoday at 9:21 AM

no, its not.

Articulate an alternative or deal with a non-optimal solution.

The status quo currently is leading to civil war.