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Re:U.S. bill to exempt small virtual currency transactions f... by logicchains on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @09:30AM (#22107142)
Incentive isn't a yes or no thing, it's a scale. The more you tax saving relative to spending, the more you encourage people to spend. Mathematically, if we view save vs spend as a choice between consuming now vs consuming later, with some fixed time discounting function, then for any given save vs spend decision, taxing one increases the relative payoff of the other.

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