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by jimnotgym 1180 days ago
This is a good comment. In the UK capital gains are taxed at around half the rate of employees. There are other incentives to 'investors' too. VCs and Hedge Funds are parasites on those that know how to produce wealth. They should pay more.

Or what is the alternative, if they didn't get their tax breaks they would do what? Stop wanting money? I don't think so

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Yeh, Carried Interest is one of the biggest tax cons going