• realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip
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    27 days ago

    Who even gives a shit at this point. It’s almost laughable. The stock market creates money from thin air without any sensible valuations anymore. Could be a decidillionaire at this point and nothing would change.

    Governments should really find a way to tax unrealised gains. Then this fiesta would end quickly.

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      27 days ago

      My man, my stock market portfolio could go up when Trump tweets about a deal, get hit by a huge tax, then I won’t have the money to pay the tax when it turns out there’s no deal

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        27 days ago

        Taxes can be variable depending on income, net worth, number of children, nipple circumference, or any other measure we decide to use. Don’t talk about them like you’re in the same category as Elon Musk because there are very few categories in which that is true.

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            25 days ago

            Or just make you pay capital gains tax on the collateral and step up the cost basis to the date of the loan

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          27 days ago

          But they never just pass a tax that only affects the wealthy. I ended up paying AMT one year because I had capital gains. I think that’s ridiculous because it was meant to affect only rich people and I had a one time windfall