• village604@adultswim.fan
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    1 day ago

    I sure wish the article had details on exactly how the tax would be assessed. Net worth is just an estimate of the value of all owned assets, not the amount of cash they have.

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      24 hours ago

      Net worth is just an estimate of the value of all owned assets, not the amount of cash they have.

      Given that billionaires get their spending cash by taking out low interest loans against the assets (and paying off those loans with other loans), that’s irrelevant.

      When you get above half a billion or so in illiquid assets, you unlock the Unlimited Untaxed Spending Cash Forever hack.

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          17 hours ago

          Shouldn’t be technically difficult at all: it’s basically just property taxes.

          The only real difficulty is the lack of political will and overabundance of corruption of most of his colleagues.