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by triceratops 8 days ago
> A common example relevant to wealth taxes is intangible assets where value is bound in who owns it and not the asset per se. Most of the value vanishes the instant you transfer to e.g. the government.

What's an actual example of this?

> Another common issue is that wealth taxes can directly conflict with existing load-bearing contracts.

Such as?