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To: catfish1957

If you don’t sell your stocks and properties you don’t generate capital gains, so no tax. Personally I find high tax rates to be a disincentive
to sell my investments and buy others . So I sit on them . The net effect is reduced economic activity and no taxes incurred. I’m sure I am among millions making similar decisions to forego taking gains att


42 posted on 01/18/2015 7:41:54 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: silverleaf
If you don’t sell your stocks and properties you don’t generate capital gains, so no tax. Personally I find high tax rates to be a disincentive to sell my investments and buy others . So I sit on them . The net effect is reduced economic activity and no taxes incurred. I’m sure I am among millions making similar decisions to forego taking gains att

That was the point I was trying to make. A capital gain is not a gain, until the equity is sold. The prior poster did not understand or was not clear on that matter.

Not only is the potential revised rule detrimental to selling equities, but is will be a dis-incentive to purchase new ones.

Obolo and his band of dumbasses are masters of the law of unintended consequences.

46 posted on 01/18/2015 10:08:15 AM PST by catfish1957 (Everything I needed to know about Islam was written on 11 Sep 2001)
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