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nightski on Aug 27, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House ...

So if you argue that we already can't enforce existing tax laws then why is proposing new, extremely expensive and difficult to enforce tax laws the solution?

fooker on Aug 27, 2024 [–]

It's not.

Taxing unrealized capital gains is just going to give these people more loopholes to play with.

But "tax the rich" seems to be the zeitgeist for whatever reason.

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