[jimbob45]

Is anyone really upset by billionaires having their money tied up in assets? It goes against the public good to force someone to break up a public company just so that the owner has less assets on their balance sheet. Aren’t you really just mad at leveraged assets? Even non-billionaires can damage the public good doing that.

[bmn__]

You were downvoted as a punishment because you made a retarded argument and HN users saw fit to not engage with words.

No billionaire is forced to break up a public company to pay taxes, the same as no average Joe is forced to sell his clothes to pay taxes. The idea in common is that if one knows that one must have cash at the end of the fiscal year, then one sets aside the money and simply avoids buying clothes or investing in assets.