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Biden Administration To Look At Wealth Tax: Yellen
https://trishintel.com ^ | March 14, 2021 | By Staff Writer

Posted on 03/15/2021 9:19:36 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger

I lost ALL my ‘wealth’ in a tragic boating accident..................

Too bad all of DC can’t get lost in a tragic boating accident.


61 posted on 03/15/2021 10:04:10 AM PDT by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: rigelkentaurus

And everyone will have very intrusive tax forms to complete valuing your entire net worth, that you will get to complete each year, making sure the government (and big tech) have a thorough understanding of everything about you.

You said a mouf full.............

62 posted on 03/15/2021 10:04:22 AM PDT by Red Badger ("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
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To: ActresponsiblyinVA

Yes.


63 posted on 03/15/2021 10:04:59 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults. )
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To: Red Badger
critics of a wealth tax also say a system like that would ultimately penalize the middle class by causing billionaires to find “loop holes” to invest and keep their money offshore

Of course, all those rich people with a house and a meager salary who work will be the target. This welfare state is unsustainable.

64 posted on 03/15/2021 10:05:46 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Red Badger

In the past, some states had different versions of ‘wealth taxes’. They depended upon you providing the information truthfully, or else...


In MO we have a “personal property” tax where we have to declare all kinds of things every year. Big thing is cars, trucks and other motor vehicles, (you have to show you paid your personal property tax to renew the plates) but also heads of livestock, numbers of chickens, etc. I doubt if too many sweat an accurate count on the latter things.


65 posted on 03/15/2021 10:07:00 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Red Badger; All
"For those that are unfamiliar with the term, a 'wealth tax' is a tax on the VALUE of everything you OWN, house, real estate, stocks, bonds, cars, gold, silver, antiques, anything of value.................."

& you will bend over again after you are gone when they get rid of "The Step Up in Basis", they will snag all your assets, you nailed it, collector cars, jewelry, etc etc.

I got nothing but guff about this one:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3936357/posts

66 posted on 03/15/2021 10:08:54 AM PDT by taildragger ("Do you hear the people Singing? Singing the Songs of Angry Men!")
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To: Red Badger

I’ve changed my mind. I am now in favor of a wealth tax. If you haveover $1 billion in net worth you must hand it all over to the government now and start over. You WIN!


67 posted on 03/15/2021 10:09:28 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Red Badger; All
Yeah, but the goose and the golden egg will be gone after the government's first round of wealth confiscation.

No more goose, no more golden egg, no more wealth.

Once the assets have been taken, they don't magically reappear to tap into again.

68 posted on 03/15/2021 10:13:29 AM PDT by HotHunt
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To: hanamizu

Tax assessor: How many chickens you got?

Tax paying citizen: 5

Tax assessor: 5?!?!?!?.... I see at least 5000 chickens here!

Tax paying citizen: I miscounted. Oh here they are! - [hands assessor a hundred dollar bill] .

Tax assesor: Okay, 5 it is!....................


69 posted on 03/15/2021 10:16:36 AM PDT by Red Badger ("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
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To: Jonty30
As usual, Democrat taxes are a sop to the Democrat base/whiners. They can take all the money
and possessions of the top 1% wealthy (who already pay over 35% of all taxes taken) and it will only
pay down the first month of the Feds annual expenditures.

Our annual deficit always exceeds the tax revenue recovered, despite the annual tax revenue
received having exceeded the previous year's intake.

This crap is smoke and mirrors. The way our government operates, we should never have to pay any taxes.
The government budget always exceeds its revenue intake.

70 posted on 03/15/2021 10:19:45 AM PDT by Thommas (The snout of the camel is in the tent.)
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To: Red Badger

BUILD MORE GALLOWS, WE’RE GOING TO NEED THEM!


71 posted on 03/15/2021 10:21:04 AM PDT by WellyP (question!)
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To: hanamizu; All
I was going to say, I lived in Kansas City while my wife and I were stationed in the Air Force there.

I'm from out West and I had never heard of a personal property tax before I got a letter from the revenue department saying I had to pay taxes on the stuff I owned, like the cars, the refrigerator, the furniture, etc. I couldn't believe it.

I just ignored it because we were only there a year before being transferred but I made a mental note to never move to Missouri again.

72 posted on 03/15/2021 10:21:20 AM PDT by HotHunt
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To: Red Badger

Gotta refill that stimulus check bucket.


73 posted on 03/15/2021 10:23:51 AM PDT by bgill (Which came first, Covid-19 or Gates and Fauci's mRNA-1273 Moderna vax?)
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To: HotHunt

Once you take someone’s wealth away from them, the pot will be empty. It doesn’t replenish itself.

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But you only tax them if their wealth is over $50 million. So you may tax someone and drive their wealth down to a $50 million level and then you stop taxing them. Liberal logic is anyone should be able to live a lifetime on $50 M, no one needs any more.


74 posted on 03/15/2021 10:40:28 AM PDT by ChronicMA
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To: ChronicMA
So what's your point?

Anybody smart enough to have assets worth over $50 million is not going to pump more income into their net worth so the liberals can steal it again.

My point is that taxing people's wealth is the same as stealing their assets. Those assets will not continue to produce more wealth for the government to steal.

This wealth tax is one and off wet dream of the democRATS.

75 posted on 03/15/2021 10:47:33 AM PDT by HotHunt
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To: Red Badger

Keep in mind any proposed tax increases is not about deficits. They are about the progressive dream of redistribution of wealth and social engineering.


76 posted on 03/15/2021 10:53:35 AM PDT by buckalfa (I have forgotten more than I ever knew.)
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To: Red Badger

You’ll have to borrow money to pay the taxes


77 posted on 03/15/2021 10:56:33 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Red Badger

“rich” will be continually reduced until it’s everyone, except those rich enough to hide all their assets


78 posted on 03/15/2021 10:58:41 AM PDT by mykroar (God speed, President Trump)
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To: Red Badger

Just more money for Nancy to Flush Down the Toilet


79 posted on 03/15/2021 10:59:15 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Red Badger

More money for Democrats to use to buy votes.


80 posted on 03/15/2021 11:00:50 AM PDT by From The Deer Stand
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