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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Jesus Christ unemployment in Spain is 14%, 34% for youth.
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So your platform is, chronically high unemployment but don’t worry we’ll give you enough welfare to eat? US per capita GDP > 2X Spain, slightly above 1/2 Spain’s poverty level. No one sane in US starves - biggest health problem for poor after cigs is diabesity.
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Spain's wealth tax is much lower than proposed in the US & full of exemptions, including for founders + shareholders, with a massive asterisk on the whole scheme that caps the tax paid at a percentage of personal income (or 1/5 the initial tax assessment) http://www.altalex.es/wp-content/uploads/90ti0239-Gabarro.pdf …
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In any case, much of Spain's wealth is kept in tax-advantaged local companies & there's not a lot of innovation. That's fine, Spain isn't obligated to try to attract founders or be a tech hub. But if the US wants the US economy, it probably shouldn't adopt Spanish tax structure.
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