Home invasion robberies are three times more common than house fires. I bet you have smoke detectors and fire extinguishers, and you've thought about how to keep yourself, your family, and your property safe from fires.
Planning and preparing for an emergency event three times more likely than a fire is not "pathological", nor is it indicative of some moral failing.
There were people who denigrated others for choosing to wear seatbelts in their cars, or helmets on their motorcycles or PPE on their jobs. You sound like one of them. Do better.
But I'd rather just the person get scared and run, since I'm not exactly willing to kill someone over my pc.
Agreed, but you have no direct control over that. The decision to get scared and run is theirs, not yours.
What kind of moron charges a door when they know there's people with a guns behind it?
Exactly. Why are they assuming there are no guns behind the heavy front door, and the only guns are behind the thin bedroom doors? What kind of moron do they have to be?
You're just trying to create scenarios where you get to shoot someone lmao
The scenario I "created" is functionally identical to the scenario the parent comment created. I simply clarified that relying on a weak interior door is monumentally stupid when a tough exterior door is available. You know it, I know it, everyone reading along knows it.
Take your family into one room and guard the door with your gun pointed at it, announce you are armed, and wait for them to leave.
The strongest doors in your house are the exterior doors. Those are the doors I'm going to be behind.
Anyone willing to come through the tough exterior doors into an occupied structure can be reasonably presumed to be willing to go through a cardboard-thin interior door into an occupied room.
Waiting for them to break down the door demonstrates I value their lives much more than they do. I'm not giving up the most defensible position in my own home to doubly prove that fact.
Of course there is going to need to be a different set of rules for businesses with few employees, I never said otherwise.
Stop gaslighting.
You replied to a comment where I had presented the case of a small business, valued at $150,000 to $250,000. I presented that hypothetical small business as an example of unrealized gains.
When I asked your preference, you stated:
A moratorium on IPOs, and purchasing of businesses in any form.
After responding to an example of a small, $250,000 business, you used unequivocal language about businesses to demonstrate your point. You certainly did "say otherwise".
But you've jumped to conclusions instead of asking and having an actual conversation about what this would look like.
My grandmother could make that "jump" in her wheelchair, and she died three years ago.
Your plan is not particularly well formed and/or you are communicating it rather poorly. Slow down, take your time, present it reasonably, and be prepared for reasonable criticism.
Thanks.
I distinguish between problematic wealth (financial assets, which entitle the owner to revenue ultimately produced by workers) and non-pronlematic wealth (assets ultimately purchased from workers.)
A worker who produces widgets earns his pay from the sale of those widgets. That worker shares the income from those widgets with the owners of the widget factory. That worker is better off when a rich individual purchases a $10,000 widget than when that rich individual purchases a $10,000 share in the factory.
So, we should tax wealth held in the form of factory shares rather than wealth held in widgets, to incentivize this rich person to buy widgets rather than shares.
You don't seem to understand that the overwhelming majority of businesses are sole proprietorships.
You don't seem to understand that the second most common type of business is a simple partnership.
You don't seem to understand that what you are describing would require a prohibition on converting a sole proprietorship into a partnership, and vice versa. Once you organize a small, home-based business, you can't later take on a partner, to share risks and rewards.
Worker-owned businesses are now prohibited, because workers can't transfer their ownership to other workers when they join or leave. Co-ops are prohibited, same reason.
No, I'm afraid that you haven't put much actual thought into this idea. In your zeal to tax the richest among us, you've just made it so that they are the only ones capable of starting a business with any chance of success.
What is your "preferred solution"?
The idea that businesses shouldn't be bought or sold is not a solution at all.
You absolutely can have unrealized gains without a stock market. Build a business. Someone wants to buy it from you for $150,000 last year, someone else wants to buy it from you for $250,000 this year, you have unrealized gains of $100,000 from last year to this year.
What we can do is apply an annual wealth tax of 1% of all registered securities, (stocks, bonds, etc) and exempt the first $10 million of each natural person. You don't have to sell your shares; the SEC knows how much you're holding, and will transfer them automatically to IRS liquidators, who will resell them on the open market in small lots, no more than 1% of total traded volume per month.
Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk lose 1% of their empires per year until they are worth less than $10 million.
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