We need to talk about this until the media deigns to mention it. The major innovation hubs have paper millionaires (and billionaires) whose "wealth" is primarily ownership of their own fast-growing companies. Do we want them forced to liquidate or take massive loans against that?https://twitter.com/Jason/status/1193218506491228160 …
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A wealth tax is fundamentally different from income or capital gains taxes. It's perfectly coherent to advocate higher taxes — even *much* higher taxes — and still balk at a new experiment in taxation that actively **advertises** undermining the tax base over time
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Why hasn't the media caught on to the fact that proposing to fund extremely expensive long-term projects with taxes that are actually intended to produce declining revenues year over year is fucking insane?
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If we actually do this, it'll represent the greatest theft from our children and grandchildren in our nation's history. It's not eating the seed corn, it's setting the whole silo on fire to warm our own toes.
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Even assuming you'll trap every millionaire + billionaire residing in the US with massive exit taxes, the next generation of founders will not come. If you're planning to feed yourself from whatever you catch in a box marked "Idiot Trap: Enter Here," you'll soon be very hungry
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Replying to @webdevMason @Truthcoin
Hey Mason, do you know what the top marginal tax rate was when Gates founded Microsoft?
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And marginal tax rates were going down, from 70 to 50 and then 28, before poking back up to 31 & then 39.6 and then 42ish.
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I keep trying to reiterate the very significant differences between the implications of higher income tax rates and a wealth tax, but people seem very disinterested in following any of that. None of what I'm saying makes any sense if you can't distinguish between the two.
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Reinstating super high top income tax brackets would largely impact a totally different set of people and would have potentially destructive effects elsewhere re: hiring, but it would not cripple tech or innovation in the same way.
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At least not as quickly as a wealth tax would. But excessively high income tax rates would eventually drain risk capital from pool, and lead wealthy to rent-seek even more (and I count muni-bond income exclusion as rent seeking).
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