• ÞlubbaÐubba@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    I said in the thing, loans collateralized on capital assets are treated as income under this model

    It’s not a wealth tax, it’s a tax on trying to avoid using that wealth through the bank shit.

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      5 months ago

      So if you get a loan for 100k, and pay back 100k + interest, what are you taxed on?

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          5 months ago

          As income? It would have to be a much much lower rate than that. And how would you make sure this doesn’t harm middle and lower class borrowers? Mortgages, car financing, home improvement, debt consolidation loans, etc? Normal people get loans too. It would make homeownership completely impossible for anyone not a multimillionaire.

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            5 months ago

            I literally said in the thing that primary residence mortgages and primary vehicle car loans would be exempt.

            Are you actually reading anything I posted here or are you just trying to sealion for the billionaires?

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              5 months ago

              I’m trying to say that it would be very difficult to just have a ton of little carve-outs for specific loan types that primarily non rich people use. You’ll have things like people getting a $100k loan secured by a way overvalued car. Ok so you introduce regulations to appraisals, that would require a massive new government bureaucracy. Now everything that secures a loan requires an appraisal, so that raises the cost. You have a carve out for credit cards, so rich people invent a “credit card” that only has a 3% interest rate that you can only get approved for if you have a certain amount of assets. So now you set more regulations for credit cards and unsecured debt. And on and on.

              It would be even more byzantine and difficult than existing tax laws. Income is a relatively straightforward concept. Unrealized income (aka wealth) is not.

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      5 months ago

      loans collateralized on capital assets are treated as income under this model

      As soon as someone unironically suggests that loans should be considered income, under any circumstances, you can safely stop listening to their economics takes, lol.

      • ÞlubbaÐubba@lemm.ee
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        5 months ago

        Billionaires ruined it for everyone else by actually using it as their real income.

        Blame them for playing games.

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          5 months ago

          Billionaires do nothing different than anyone who takes out a HELOC on a house that appreciates in value at a rate higher than the LOC.

          No one “ruined” anything or “played games”, you’re just ignorant of what’s actually being done. If your collateral happens to be something that appreciates in value faster than your loan balance does, you can do the exact same thing.

          Small business loans are also all basically predicated on the exact same premise: “loan me this upfront money I need, and I can use it to make enough money to pay you back and then some”. The only difference is that I’m that case, the ‘thing that becomes more valuable’ is being created, it’s not something that exists already that’s growing in value.

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            5 months ago

            Yeah no except they literally did ruin it for everyone else and play games. Billionaires use extremely low interest loans collateralized on capital assets as a means to get free money that allows them to throw their wealth around without ever having to either risk number go down or having to pay their due.

            We cannot allow billionaires to keep getting away with dodging what they owe because some people who frankly probably shouldn’t be in the small business gang anyways might have to gasp get a job!

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              5 months ago

              Yeah no except billionaires do exactly the thing you just said, that you already explained anyone can do, proving your point

              ok

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                5 months ago

                So you’re agreeing that they are deriving income from capital collateralized loans and yet are still simping for their right to do that and short change the tax office.

                Cool, very normal of you.