Lessons to be learned here - not just for politicians..
Starmer still squirming over legalities.
He's a lawyer, not a leader.
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