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To: cgbg

That’s peanuts.

Wealth tax would bring in billions, they would be extremely diligent at enforcing it, with big jail times.


37 posted on 02/18/2024 8:39:00 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: aquila48

The reason I gave that example is that enforcement takes real work and a large bureaucracy.

Seriously enforcing a wealth tax would mean ten times the number of revenue agents in any jurisdiction—that is not realistic.

Btw the wealthy will be a hundred times more clever than the relatively small number of Cuban cigar vendors and hobbyists.

I have written before about my wealthy relative who is an art collector. He has tax attorneys who live to figure out schemes to avoid taxation—and they are off the charts brilliant folks—when they are not helping to write the tax code to create loopholes they are ten steps ahead of any proposed legislation in any relevant jurisdiction.

Governments are way outmatched in this area.


38 posted on 02/18/2024 8:59:14 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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