• adb@lemmy.ml
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    23 days ago

    Indeed, this looks very unserious.

    Unrealized wealth isn’t a thing though. You’re mixing it up with unrealized gains (edit: an already quite dubious concept) Stock is wealth, just like your house.

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      23 days ago

      Yeah, exactly. If unrealized wealth isn’t a thing, why do property taxes increase even if you haven’t sold your home? After all, your home going up in value isn’t realized until you sell the property. It’s almost as if the federal government knows that unrealized gains are BS, but they only want to bother with taxing the poors. Because if they started taxing unrealized wealth, that would target the rich. And we can’t have that.

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      23 days ago

      Yes, this.
      It amazes me how quickly ppl will defend/repeat oligarch propaganda on the subjects they don’t (want to?) understand.