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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, they can keep them, but those loopholes need to be closed. Maybe don't allow using ownership of a company as collateral for a loan? If you want to use your massive stored wealth as money you need to sell it. You want to get it back buy it. I'm not a finance or policy person, but there has to be a way to make these people pay the propert tax on their wealth.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So they can keep their ownership, but we are going to remove their way to loan money against it, and still expect them to pay billions in taxes without giving away any ownership? How do you expect them to pay billions in taxes when the only billions they have in value is company ownership? You are forcing them to sell company ownership to pay this ridiculous tax.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair, if billionaires could no longer use their stocks as collateral to borrow insane amounts, maybe they’d have to give themselves taxable salaries.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think the government would ban the practice, since the middle class uses the same thing for stuff like reverse mortgages. I can see them limiting the amount though.

If they did ban it though, billionaires would still be billionaires, they probably don't need much of an actual salary when most of their stuff is paid for.