5 comments

  • silverFork 2 hours ago
    That is result of some really insane laws that has been written about a million times. They have known that zillionaires are using it to avoid paying taxes altogether, even after death.
  • karmajunkie 1 hour ago
    as soon as wealth of any sort is collateralized the tax code should treat it as liquid and tax it. preferably heavily.
    • silverFork 22 minutes ago
      If they forced sell any stock that is has been held for more than a year on random dates and bought them back automatically, the whole scheme will be done for.
    • mindslight 46 minutes ago
      Exactly. This is how IRAs already work. Taking a loan (beyond your basis) should count as realized income (while also adjusting your cost basis).
  • IncreasePosts 10 minutes ago
    Won't the people using this strategy end up paying a lot more (in terms of percent ownership of their holdings) in an extended downturn?
  • feverzsj 9 minutes ago
    Finance capitalism, the root of all evil.
  • yieldcrv 2 hours ago
    the financial sector is an ongoing construction project, going the direction of all items having an easy way to be valued to the minute, with the merchant and reseller having the same price instead of a wildly different one, all items then being able to be used as collateral instantly, fractionally sold as shares, and with a derivatives market on top

    this project is not done, it’s not close to done, but improvements in this space have led to more people being able to access this lending market

    I see that improving beyond publicly traded equity and real estate