[TomVDB]

You’ve just made it completely impractical for anyone to invest their cash in, say, heavy machinery or a new fabrication plant.

Is that your intention?

[undersuit]

Did I? If you invest in a piece of heavy machinery does it just sit around doing nothing, i.e. not generating any sort of profit.

No it's an item that produces work, unlike a painting which I'm totally OK with making it impractical to invest in.

[TomVDB]

"illiquid asset" was all you wrote. That's completely orthogonal to "doing nothing."

[bazooka_penguin]

It's pretty clear he wants to tax people out of spite.

[village-idiot]

Guessing the intentions of others is an ugly look.