Unrealized gains tax for Gen-Z:
You buy a Pokémon card for $50.
Someone offers you $500 for it. You say no. You love that card. You're keeping it.
The government says: "Cool, but that card is worth $500 now. You owe us $100 in taxes."
You: "…I didn't sell it."
Government: "Don't care. Pay up."
You don't have $100 lying around. So you're forced to sell the card you love just to pay a tax on money you never received.
Next month? That card drops back to $50.
Your card is gone. Your money is gone. And the government shrugs.
That's a wealth tax on unrealized gains. They don't pay you back the tax...
Now picture this.
Your mom calls you crying. She has to sell the house she raised you in. Not because she can't afford it. She's lived there 30 years. It's paid off.
But some website says it's worth more now and the government says she owes $15,000 she doesn't have.
So she sells your childhood home. The kitchen where she made you breakfast. The doorframe where she marked your height every birthday.
Gone.
To pay a tax on money that was never real.
Now picture the opposite.
Your dad put everything into his small business. For 20 years he built it from nothing. One year the business is "valued" at $2 million on paper. He owes a massive tax bill. He empties his savings. Sells his truck. Borrows money. Pays it.
Next year the market crashes. His business is worth $200,000.
He lost everything to pay a tax on a number that doesn't exist anymore.
Does the government give him his money back?
No.
Does the government give him his truck back?
No.
Does the government care?
No.
They sold this idea as "taxing billionaires." But billionaires have armies of lawyers, offshore accounts, and trusts. They'll be fine.
You know who won't be fine? Your mom. Your dad. Your neighbor with a small business. The farmer down the road who's had the same land for four generations and now has to sell it because dirt got expensive.
You're not taxing wealth. You're taxing people for owning things.
It's like getting a parking ticket for a car you might drive somewhere someday.
They want you to own nothing and be happy. To fund the fraud, waste and abuse of the welfare state they created.
There is enough money. More tax isn't needed. It's all a lie. But you've been gaslit into believing this is a rich vs poor debate.
I hope you understand what's at stake.
I have evidence that exposes the CIA, and it’s on camera. I am working on releasing a story that I believe is the most important of my entire career.
Do you think it’s a coincidence that right at this moment I am subject to an endless series of attacks?
This is obviously a sophisticated information operation designed to stop me from releasing this story. I’m sure you recognize they are masters of using half-truths and innuendos to raise doubt against people who don’t deserve it. It’s meant to consume my time and energy and make me back down.
But I’m not going to let it work. Rest assured, nothing will stop me from releasing this story.
I urge my followers and supporters to take note of every person participating because this is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are.
You certainly deserve some light mockery.
CG is bad at business fundamentals, appears to have a history of being disruptive at events, and isn't a substantial draw at events - making it easier for event organizers to exclude you. CG made the choice to be a siloed combative fan club rather than having broad relevance and burned a lot of bridges. It's unlikely you can generate a wide outcry in the comic book space to compel a change.
Brass tacks, are you going to attempt any specific legal recourse or just milk youtube for the next week or so while the topic has some emotional resonance with your fans?
@jondelarroz Wondering if they are the same “big names” you were crowing about when you were bragging your “scoop” took down Ed Piskor! You are a pathetic liar!
It's 2024 and Ethan is still telling people about the time I gave a poor man money for a funeral in a private act of charity that was then twisted into some sort of moronic conspiracy bribe for YouTube content that almost no one watched.
He went around saying I was funded by secret Chinese shadow men two years ago and now he's acting like he knows how much money I have in the bank. It's very strange.
The idea that I would help a poor man properly bury his Catholic mother and give her some sort of dignity as she steps into eternity is foreign to Ethan. I feel sorry for him.
Ethan should stop focusing on Eric July. He should stop focusing on Iconic Comics. He should stop focusing on me, Tim, and Mark.
He really should focus on the people who want the books they paid for years ago.
Thanks Hans for reminding everyone how this all began. Biden was the one who brought up the “Logan Act” in the Oval Office on that fateful day, 5 January, 2017…that’s a day that will go down in history as the day the coup began.
Sorry to all you triggered bots, but the evidence is overwhelming.
Dems admit:
1. A massive preemptive conspiracy to stop Trump using psy ops in collusion with big tech and the MSM (Hunters laptop&more)
2.Mass infltrtn of poll wrkr jobs
3.Sweeping and unrecedented lawfare to set the stage, giving dem advantage
4. Continued lawfare to shut down all challenges (legit or othrwse).
All wrapped in a lie, spun from whole cloth that Trump wasn't going to leave office. They created the threat, then acted on their invented threat as justification to subvert every aspect of the election in the name of saving democracy.
Off my chest: Global Warming IS A FRAUD! About 450 billion years ago, a cosmic cloud collapsed to create a star in its center-our sun! Space dust coalesced in their orbits to become protoplanets—and about 100 million years later, most of Earth was formed—a sphere of MOLTEN ROCK!
High crime is the DIRECT RESULT of DEFUNDING THE POLICE—and crazed Liberal DAs and judges whose agenda is to free criminals at the cost of working-class lives! Many major cities now have ONLY ENOUGH POLICE to handle 10% of URBAN CRIME! That's the definition of CRIMINAL!!!