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Re:Just Be Rich by MikeUt on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @06:32PM (#26800280)
You can't invest a family farm, or a painting. I will repeat myself a 3rd time - if the goal is to slow the growth of wealth, the right course of action is to raise the tax rate on the returns to that wealth. If you tax wealth itself, you're needlessly relying on the investability of said wealth, as well as on market returns.
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Re:Just Be Rich by TheCoelacanth on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @11:24PM (#26802606)
Family farms produce income and are rarely large enough to hit the threshold for these proposed taxes.

As for case of non-income generating wealth, too bad. If you can't manage to generate the absolutely pathetically low returns (2%!) that would be needed, then you don't deserve to be rich forever.

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