• chocrates@piefed.world
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    1 day ago

    Following the sale, Hong’s stake in the world’s largest memory chipmaker will likely fall from 1.66% to 1.49%

    Good that it’s working but shouldn’t inheritance tax at least bump them down to millionaires? I thought that the point was to prevent a wealth class, this is just an inconvenience.

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      4 hours ago

      At their wealth class that would probably mean something like a 99.999% inheritance tax.

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      16 hours ago

      Need a “securities” tax, payable in shares of the security. An annual assessment of 1% of all shares owned, transferred directly to an IRS liquidation department. The liquidated shares will be sold off to the general public over time, such that no more than 1% of total traded volume of the security are liquidated shares.

      Individual investors can exempt up to $10 million in value from the tax. Artificial persons (corporations, trusts, any “owner” that isn’t human) are non-exempt.

      Basically, stocks, bonds, and other financial instruments become more valuable assets to the working class, but carry more liabilities for the problem class.