Re:Panic at the Job Market
by JonChesterfield on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @04:01PM
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Schemes like this tend to move assets to a better location and otherwise cause widespread restructuring to minimise the loss. Taxation is inherently complicated.
Re:Panic at the Job Market
by guywithahat on Thursday July 18, 2024 @12:17AM
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Not only that, but it would incentivize people to not own assets. People would live paycheck to paycheck, they’d rent longer, and they’d waste money on lavish trips or food (at least until the next economic downturn when they get evicted and lose everything).
https://ota.polyonymo.us/others-papers/NetAssetTax_Bowery.tx...
When we got a law passed to privatize space launch services back in 1990
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boLdXiLJZoY
we were in the midst of a quasi-depression so I decided to address the problem of private capitalization of technology with the aforelinked proposal.