• ubermeisters@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Wealth Tax is just income tax with different increments of tax bracketing. You sound like a dummy. Nobody said the current income tax structure needs to be retained. Also rich people will just spend thier money on things not considered wealth, which they can convert back to wealth as needed, if true wealth tax is ever proposed.

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      1 year ago

      Wealth and income are related, but are not the same thing. Wealth is assets while Income is earnings. Wealth could come from saving/investing income, but it can also come from “unearned income” like the appreciation of assets.

      I personally don’t support Wealth Taxes because wherever they’ve been implements, they’ve had limited effects. I’ve yet to hear a good plan for how to execute a Wealth Tax and haven’t heard good answers for questions like, “Do we allow for depreciation of wealth?” and if so, “How do we avoid that turning into a tax loophole.”

      Either way, wealth and income aren’t the same thing.

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        1 year ago

        if i thought wealth and income were the same thing, I wouldn’t have listed taxation of income vs wealth as different things, which I did.

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          1 year ago

          Wealth Tax is just income tax with different increments of tax bracketing.

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