Did I say mandatory? I meant optional! You’re “free” to die in a cardboard box under a freeway as a market capitalist scarecrow warning to the other ants so they keep showing up to make us more!

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    8 hours ago

    Or doing so, it counts the loan as income and is taxed accordingly. But seriously, the main aim itself can also be taxed. A house is…

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      7 hours ago

      You’d have to put some controls in there for that solution to work. Hitting new homeowners with an immediate tax on “earning” $1,000,000 to pay for their house seems a bit cruel.

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        7 hours ago

        The unrealized gains is for 100 millionaires or more. I don’t think there is anyone with 100million in unrealized home value.

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          7 hours ago

          I was talking for a hypothetical world where that law isn’t a thing and simply paying capital gains in “realized” gains is.

          Nut hey, yeah, sure, 100mil works too.