You could make that argument against absolutely any policy. So what is your solution then? Don't do anything?
Could you explain why this is the case?
> So just tax wealth of individuals
Individuals can play the same games. Jeff Bezos could move most of his wealth into funds, foundations or companies and be poor on paper while still keeping the de-facto control of all assets. Or they could shift their wealth overseas, into tax havens or into less transparent areas like crypto.
I’m talking all loopholes, even giving money to a 501c3. Billy’s nonprofit gives back less than 1% to the country that coddled him. Plus—I feel a lot of nonprofits are just tax dodges.
Want to manufacture overseas? Fine, but move to that country, and don’t come back.
I got carried away again. I would like to basically see tax loopholes closed, or only allowed the first few years of a business life.
> Could you explain why this is the case?
Just to comment on this real quick, this has multiple reasons. Basically, the larger your company is, the more funds you have to spend on lawyers and experts, as well as offshoring. Also, depending on the country you're in and the specific tax laws, it might be easier to fulfill incentives for nullifying the corporate tax (IIRC reinvesting and creating jobs is how Amazon nullifies a good chunk of their taxes, right?). That is not to say, we should completely axe corporate tax imo, because some of those incentives are really good. You want corporations in your country to reinvest and create jobs, because that's overall a really good thing for the job market.
The thing about Bezos' wealth is that a huge chunk (maybe even the majority) of it is already in the form of assets. That's not as easily moved overseas (though to my limited understanding it isn't impossible) without hurting his own company, and at that point it might be profitable to just pay a wealth or asset tax or something like that. Obviously that would need to be designed REALLY well, but there's a good chance that that's how we can tax exactly what we want to tax, without hurting small businesses and without hurting the lower class.
The problem is real-estate as this is what people need. If people could buy property they would not be interested in stocks or crypto and they would not care for rich people getting richer. They would be busy in their pools or backyards.
And fixing real-estate is not done by having more taxes, penalizing vacant homes, or grabbing your inheritance. It's simple: Build more housing.
I am almost in my 40s now and one thing I've recently learned is that sometimes it is better not to do anything at all.
You can set a fee of 3% for restaurants let's say, and 10% for some other business (example)
This makes sense for small business
Even if it does mean less restaurants and less eating out, there is nothing inherently more unfair about it.
You can also see for example the digital services tax introduced by France because VAT was not proving effective.
Unless your thought is that businesses would charge more if there was no sales tax. I don't really buy that, though; businesses list pre-tax prices specifically to avoid sticker shock.