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The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily
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Public equity is an elegant solution to this quandary, among others.
You can easily tax “unrealized gains,” and attach social strings to any additional economic stimulus and subsidy, by simply allowing public fractional shareholding in the marketplace.
Edit: many problems then resolve themselves…
For example, any corporation or other private interest which requires excessive public backing because it is too important or “too big to fail,” which only describes a service which should be centralized, is one in which the public rapidly obtains a controlling share.
Likewise, instead of forcing taxpayers to subsidize shareholders, creating feudal oligarchies, public equity would naturally pay dividends on revenue to public shares, implementing UBI overnight for pennies on the dollar.
It doesn’t have to be complicated, but it’s in private equity’s interest that we think it so.