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DANmodetoday at 1:57 PM3 repliesview on HN

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lazyasciiarttoday at 5:26 PM

If that’s what they wanted to do, they would have to realize those gains. The state is doing the opposite of preventing this.

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WarmWashtoday at 2:24 PM

Your question is more well formed if you challenge the premise that the tax you owe should scale linearly with the value of your assets. Obviously a business benefits from things the state provides, and the business should pay it's share to cover those costs. Maybe, honestly, even a little extra.

The challenge is if someone makes a software company, and a team of 20 workers on computers create a €10B business, does the state have a fair claim to €5B of it when the company at most with the most generous possible estimate (and then double it for good measure) used €50M of state services?

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munk-atoday at 2:01 PM

The premise of taxes?