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Societies could mandate that works of art that are stored in freeports be publicly accessible. Locking away priceless historic art for speculation purposes should be banned.

Basically, either you wish to enjoy the artwork alone, then you have to pay taxes, or you wish to hide it from taxes, then you have to share it with the general public.

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Or, that art exhibited in museums open free of charge to the general public enjoy the same tax benefits as freeports - putting freeports out of business.

>> Societies could mandate that works of art that are stored in freeports be publicly accessible

This is true, societies could choose to be less free. Alternatively, societies could choose to be more free.

I would rather my society be more free than it currently is, rather than less free.

Ya this is true but who’s gonna pay for the roads and the schools and the cops? Not the people with art in freeports.

What’s “more free” about a legal loophole that allows million/billionaires to hoard art for speculative gains, while avoiding being taxed on them like everyone else?

You're asking what is more free about allowing someone to do something than mandating that they do something else.

“someone to do something”

In this phrase, “someone” are only million/billionaires (1%) and “something” is avoid taxes on a niche, speculation on art.

Not sure how that is much of a freedom to be honest.

All human beings desire freedom to some extent... the expressions may include freedom to stack up artworks in a warehouse, or freedom to post weird comments on an Internet forum.

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