You buy a Pok\u00e9mon card for $50.<\/p>\n
Someone offers you $500 for it.<\/p>\n
You say no. You love that card. You're keeping it.<\/p>\n
The government says: \"Cool, but that card is worth $500 now. You owe us $100 in taxes.\"<\/p>\n
You: \"\u2026I didn't sell it.\"<\/p>\n
Government: \"Don't care. Pay up.\"<\/p>\n
You don't have $100 lying around. So you're forced to sell the card you love just to pay a tax on money you never received.<\/p>\n
Next month? That card drops back to $50. Your card is gone. Your money is gone. And the government shrugs.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
That's a wealth tax on unrealized gains. They don't pay you back the tax...<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Now picture this. Your mom calls you crying. She has to sell the house she raised you in.<\/p>\n
Not because she can't afford it.<\/p>\n
She's lived there 30 years.<\/p>\n
It's paid off.<\/p>\n
But some website says it's worth more now and the government says she owes $15,000 she doesn't have.<\/p>\n
So she sells your childhood home. The kitchen where she made you breakfast. The doorframe where she marked your height every birthday.<\/p>\n
Gone. To pay a tax on money that was never real.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Now picture the opposite. Your dad put everything into his small business. For 20 years he built it from nothing.<\/p>\n
One year the business is \"valued\" at $2 million on paper. He owes a massive tax bill. He empties his savings. Sells his truck. Borrows money. Pays it.<\/p>\n
Next year the market crashes. His business is worth $200,000. He lost everything to pay a tax on a number that doesn't exist anymore.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Does the government give him his money back? No.<\/p>\n
Does the government give him his truck back? No.<\/p>\n
Does the government care? No.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
They sold this idea as \"taxing billionaires.\"<\/p>\n
But billionaires have armies of lawyers, offshore accounts, and trusts. They'll be fine.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
You know who won't be fine? Your mom. Your dad. Your neighbor with a small business. The farmer down the road who's had the same land for four generations and now has to sell it because dirt got expensive.<\/p>\n
You're not taxing wealth.<\/p>\n
You're taxing people for owning things.<\/p>\n
It's like getting a parking ticket for a car you might drive somewhere someday.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
They want you to own nothing and be happy.<\/p>\n
To fund the fraud, waste and abuse of the welfare state they created.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
There is enough money.<\/p>\n
More tax isn't needed.<\/p>\n
It's all a lie.<\/p>\n
But you've been gaslit into believing this is a rich vs poor debate.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I hope you understand what's at stake.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
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