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Re:Why American Workers Pay Twice as Much in Taxes as Wealth... by princeb on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @10:45AM (#15227655)
capital gains is the leftover of profit after tax. taxing capital gains is taxing profit twice.

in my opinion, for a clean treatment of value taxation, either corporate tax or capital gains tax must go.

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Re:Why American Workers Pay Twice as Much in Taxes as Wealth... by aaronblohowiak on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @10:53AM (#15227748)
No, I don't see it that way -- Taxing dividends is taxing profit twice, not capital gains. Capital gains is taxing asset appreciation.
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Re:Why American Workers Pay Twice as Much in Taxes as Wealth... by dasil003 on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @10:59AM (#15227803)
No it's not, the corporation is taxed once, and the dividend recipient is taxed once. If a corporation is to have rights of personhood it needs to pay taxes as well. Also capital gains can come from many sources that aren't taxable.
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