[kiwih]

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I think a more reasonable interpretation might be "the government knows about expensive cars (i.e. that they are registered, have numberplates etc), and so charges some annual tax on the owners of those cars."

[tastyfreeze]

Describing wealth tax reasoning with an absurd example of the same reasoning on an individual level is an attempt to get people to understand what wealth taxes are.

The government that is supposed to work for you thinks you have accumulated too much stuff and is trying to make it legal to take a percentage of your physical wealth annually.

[toomuchtodo]

You only accumulated and maintain the wealth because of the government. Without the government and the economic system it cultivates, you’d never have it.