To this day, Sanders' proposed exit tax remains one of the most alarming authoritarian proposals I've ever seen from a US presidential candidate. Confiscating property with explicit intent to keep a particular class of citizens from voluntarily leaving is a *hell* of a precedent
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Fair. My thinking was that the existing exit tax taxes all those years of eg retirement gains all in one year, pushing into the highest rates, when one might otherwise never have paid anywhere near as much.
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But yeah, the Bernie one is a wealth exit tax, not an earnings tax. That *is* different.
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Ok but that still sucks.
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Well hell, long time bernie supporter just became a non supporter. You lived up to your end of the contract, it is yours.
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It has catch 22s like paying all the taxes on pensions, for money you don't have access to
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