Income is when you have money coming in. Next!
Clarification: including "capital gains", inheritances and whatever other (primarily) rich people revenue sources are taxed less because they have more expensive lobbying and lawyers.
You're agreeing with the rich people in this case when you say that. They got none of those things in this case. They're being taxed on money they could theoretically get.
They're being taxed on money they could theoretically get.
I'm guessing you're talking about "unrealised gains" but that's still not accurate.
You pay property taxes for your physical properties that you haven't sold, like your house. Why should intangible assets be valuable in the same way but not taxed in the same way?
Anybody got a TL:DR?
TL;DR the rich don't want the government taxing their assets, they want to keep taxes to money only so they can keep their "income" low and hide the rest.
Regressive tax ftw!
Which they already can do anyway. This just paves the way to do it legally and in the open.
More literally, in Trump's such people tax break, there was added a tax on money invested overseas. The Moore's invested money overseas, but hadn't gotten a return on it yet, so they're saying that money isn't "income" which is what is taxable according to the 16th amendment.
So 100% rich people trying to protect their tax havens
Good summary, but that's a stupid argument (by the people making it). We already have all kinds of taxes that exist as fees for moving goods (tariffs) and even for moving money (e.g. a tax penalty if I withdraw early from my 401k).
It seems perfectly valid to have a tax/fee on moving money overseas to invest it. One might argue that's not "fair" for some reason (e.g. if the money is taxed in the other direction too), but it's certainly something the government has the power to do.
Our current Supreme Court isn't exactly respecting precedent in their judgements
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