• FishFace@piefed.social
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    3 days ago

    Yeah, stocks, very significantly. It’s really not hard to move that wealth by selling stocks.

    It’s not hard to sell the factory you own to a company that isn’t owned by any individual.

    It’s not just my uninformed opinion; the forecasts find this too, as does history looking at other wealth taxes. That’s why the idea of the one off tax comes up - experts aren’t necessarily opposed to the idea of teaching wealth in principle.

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      3 days ago

      It’s not hard to sell the factory you own to a company that isn’t owned by any individual.

      Sure? It’s not like companies are immune to taxation.

      experts aren’t necessarily opposed to the idea of teaching wealth in principle.

      “Experts” also tend to be neoliberals more concerned with balancing the budget and increasing GDP than with feeding living breathing people, so I’m not too concerned about what they say.