From the comments, Zaua on capital gains tax hikes

This is a big mistake even from a class equality perspective as it will cause rich people to invest more in things that are less liquid and accessible, and therefore harder to tax, from private businesses to real estate to crypto.

I believe that as much wealth as possible should be based on publicly traded corporations, because that is an avenue to build wealth that is accessible to all people with any amount of spare money and an avenue where regular people probably aren’t going to get screwed too badly by insiders because of the efficient markets hypothesis. However, the liquidity and accessibility of public markets also makes them easier to tax. So the higher capital gains tax rates are, the less attractive the public company form will be and the more attractive investment options will be put behind opaque structures that have tax advantages but also become too risky or even inaccessible to the general public.

If you must raise taxes on the rich, do it on their individual income rates, not their capital gains rates.

Here is the link.

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