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Re:Modeling a Wealth Tax by bobcostas55 on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @10:22AM (#24198880)
By the same reasoning income tax doesn't exist because people sometimes get raises. Come on.
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Re:Modeling a Wealth Tax by bitdivision on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @10:54AM (#24199340)
I don't think that's a fair comparison.

The article does not model asset growth in any way, and if you do model asset growth you would get significantly different numbers.

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Re:Modeling a Wealth Tax by throwaway2048 on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @01:34PM (#24201610)
Yet somehow people keep working and the entire world of "labour investment" dosen't collapse
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