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anonporridge | 12 days ago

A US wealth/unrealized gains tax might trigger it, because it would likely create a cascade of forced selling, with the proceeds of sales getting burned as tax revenue for entitlement programs or debt payments rather than reinvested.

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triceratops|12 days ago

What if wealth taxes could be paid with shares instead of cash? And the shares went into a sovereign wealth fund? No forced selling, no crash.

terminalshort|12 days ago

What if the government owned all the corporations?