• ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Government has never expanded their reach when given power. Civil forfeiture was about combating organized crime not funding police departments. Border patrol has expanded reasonable searches from crossings to cover entire states. Give it 20 year and this will apply to gains over a million.

    • TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip
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      3 months ago

      I mean… oh no? A million is still wildly more than any one human needs or should have so who gives a shit if they tax it. Also unsure if a retirement fund would exactly count as tradable assets anyways. But also, if we accidentally manage to kill the fucking stock market because of this in only two years that be fucking cool as hell lol.

    • Not_mikey@slrpnk.net
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      3 months ago

      Yes, and because of this the corporate tax rate and top marginal tax rate has been trending up for the past half century… right?