• almost_genocide@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Say you are taxed 10% on the value of all the stocks you own, this means you have to sell 10% of your stocks annually, and by selling stocks you make those stocks less valuable for everyone… so technically they should be taxed less because value drops down?

    Just a note, suggesting a 10% tax is pure fear mongering that billionaires and capitalists use to scare people. The average property tax rate in the United States is 1.1% so that’s a reasonable percentage to give. People don’t sell 1% of their home every year.

    Property taxes are a thing. Stocks are property.

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      13 hours ago

      I honest to god used 10% as an idea of “ridiculously low tax” but I guess the topic of problems with billionaires may be too american for me.

      Stocks should be taxed on buy/sell and yearly hold though.

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        11 hours ago

        I honest to god used 10% as an idea of “ridiculously low tax”

        You live in a country that has 10% property tax rates?