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Have you been keeping track of politics AT ALL? You're if fool if you don't EXPECT precisely that to happen. The vast majority of politicians will foam at the mouth at the prospect of passing another tax and then happily add a few provisions to make sure their top donors aren't hurt too much by it. Or do you think it's just a tragic accident that the majority of taxes keeps getting paid by the poor and middle classes?
I don't have any data to prove or disprove that claim, but assuming it's true, then there's certainly better ways to achieve that, like increasing income tax rates on the wealthy. Yes sure, they'll try to avoid it by deferring or offsetting gains where they can, but in the end, whatever they own, they'll still have to convert a certain amount of it to cash in order to spend it, and that can be taxed. No need for such harebrained schemes as taxing unrealized gains.
I largely disagree. I don't wear a tinfoil hat, sorry. I have seen successful execution of homestead related profit protections, and there are very few "gotchas" in it, if any, for non-millionaires.
I'm an American, so blame my patriotism. But I like to think if EVERY other country can do it, we're not so pathetic as a country that we cannot.
There's a ceiling on the revenue potential in that. The wealthier you get, the less your income is "income". The wealthy don't even try to "avoid" it, it's just not relevant to them. Bezos wasn't lying that year he only made $80k in income. His unrealized capital gains simply were not taxable unless he chose to sell off lots of Amazon stock (which has non-tax-related repurcussions for him).