Todays post
Taxing the Bezzle - Dutch Style
https://polemicpaine.substack.com/p/taxing-the-bezzle-dutch-style
The Netherlands just passed a catastrophic tax experiment -
36% annual tax on UNREALIZED gains (effective 2028)
Key problems:
• Pay cash on paper gains
• Losses aren't refunded
• Kills long-term investing
A surveillance regime is being assembled in front of our very eyes.
Most of you do not understand the tyrannical nightmare directly ahead.
People still talk like this is a future problem. It's not. The battle against dystopia is now. 1984 is here.
It arrives as "efficiency,"
Another post that's spot on.
The type of people that could create the new inflow required -
@mdvex22 has the answer to that
Today's post
Morals Abhor an economic vacuum
https://polemicpaine.substack.com/p/the-economic-pond-when-levels-fall
When growth stalls, nothing new appears. Old ideas surface.
Redistribution replaces expansion.
Management replaces ambition.
Decline gets rebranded as virtue.
In stagnation, morals expand to fill the
The game which you are forced to play. Rules may change any given moment...
Today's post.
https://polemicpaine.substack.com/p/modern-monopoly-theory-mmt
Modern Monopoly Theory. (MMT)
20 new rules
Once we are told that tariffs can be justified by land sitting in the "wrong" hands and that land should be taxed to optimise its utility, it makes sense to look at the rules of Monopoly and