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by ruggeri 1494 days ago
That might be true if they couldn't move wealth outside the country.

But a concern is that those with savings might move money out of the country to invest in jurisdictions with lower capital gains tax.

One view is that this tax jurisdiction forum-shopping creates a race to the bottom.

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It's the same for workers, they can just perform their labour outside of the country and they would create a much larger problem.