The are endowed by their creator with certain inalieable rights......
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Originally posted by taxwonk
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Anyone stupid enough to avoid taking a gain or realizing income because they don't want to pay .34 of tax for .66 return should pay a higher tax. If anything, the current system is more efficient for the economy because it rewards, through the basis stepup at death, a long-term view of investing, which stabilizes capital.
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And that some rationale would work if the number 34 was 49 and 66 was 51. Doesn't make it any more equitable or just. Stop my raping my pocket for amoral relativistic applications of bureaucratic inefficiency and oppression.
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