Did I say mandatory? I meant optional! You’re “free” to die in a cardboard box under a freeway as a market capitalist scarecrow warning to the other ants so they keep showing up to make us more!

  • @[email protected]
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    7311 hours ago

    I think the real solution is not to lend on fake money. Tax or no tax, it wasn’t taxes that caused the market crash in 2008.

      • @[email protected]
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        14 hours ago

        Not enforceable as a law, but not bailing out those who do it is a great way to put an end to it.

        • @[email protected]
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          156 minutes ago

          I’d rather just have it done than give them another thing they can pressure politicians to bail them out of later.

    • Talaraine
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      1311 hours ago

      Thank you. Even if they pass something it will be written by a bureaucratic bean counter and will be riddled with loopholes.

      Simply don’t allow loans on stocks. Keep it simple.

      • @[email protected]
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        27 hours ago

        OK. I’ll sell the stock, buy a home, then use the home equity to secure a loan to buy the stock.

        That’s nothing. Late stage capitalist finance allows all sorts of ridiculous.

        • @Kecessa
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          47 hours ago

          Ok but then you’ll pay taxes on that sale so there’s no problem.