[toomuchtodo]

I intend to tax capital gains just as high as well, unless its in a retirement account.

> If you tried to place that restriction on capital gains, everyone ounce of capital in the this country would flee.

Feel free to take your capital out of the country. It'll be taxed with an expatriation tax. Attempting to evade the tax will allow the IRS to confiscate assets anywhere in the world the US has a tax treaty with (ie everywhere).

[rhino369]

You realize what would happen right? The rich would divest from all their investments permanently. They'd sell all their assets foreigners[1] who aren't subject to the tax. There is no point risking losing your investment if taxes will take any gain. It fucks the expected value of investment.

Would you take a bet on a coin flip, if when you lost you paid a dollar, but when you won you'd get a nickle.

Banks would implode. The credit market would stop. Any business survive on a line of credit would just fail immediately.

Best case scenario, you'd just replace American rich for foreign rich.

[1] if you tried to tax foreign capital gains on American assets, you'd just destroy the entire economy. There would be huge lack of capital.

Your plan is insanity.

Edit: And some country would be creative and end tax treaties with the US just to get a couple trillion of capital flowing through their economy.