Did I say mandatory? I meant optional! You’re “free” to die in a cardboard box under a freeway as a market capitalist scarecrow warning to the other ants so they keep showing up to make us more!

  • @hesusingthespiritbomb
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    92 months ago

    Homeowners are excluded from capital gains tax for the first 250k for individual filers.

    • partial_accumen
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      22 months ago

      I believe you’re referring to rules on sale of a home where there is a capital gain, meaning you bought the house for $100k and sell it for $350k, no cap gains taxes. We’re in uncharted waters with what @[email protected] is proposing. That user (possibly) suggesting it for HELOCs too.

      • @hesusingthespiritbomb
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        32 months ago

        Okay but you can just apply the same logic to a HELOC. If you get a 30k HELOC for a bedroom renovation then it does not count towards capital gains tax.

        Even normal capital gains taxes have brackets.

        • partial_accumen
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          02 months ago

          Okay but you can just apply the same logic to a HELOC. If you get a 30k HELOC for a bedroom renovation then it does not count towards capital gains tax.

          Wouldn’t this be a double standard if we’re applying @[email protected] 's logic? The rich would get taxed on loaned money but the middle class wouldn’t?

          • @orrk
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            42 months ago

            that’s like the point of the entire system? I mean, I don’t want to go back to the 1800s corporate baronies that defined most industry at that point in time

          • @hesusingthespiritbomb
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            42 months ago

            That’s generally how progressive tax brackets work, yes. Technically speaking if I rich person wants to take out a 30k HELOC they’d also not get taxed on it.

          • @[email protected]
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            22 months ago

            The rich would get taxed on loaned money but the middle class wouldn’t?

            Oh no… Anyway.

          • @[email protected]
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            22 months ago

            This is how… EVERYTHING works… Income tax brackets, 401k limits. I thought this was pretty obvious, from each according their ability and all.