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   "Scout"  wrote in   
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   > "Skeeter"  wrote in message   
   > news:670703e0$1$3068689$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com...   
   >> In article ,   
   >> bax02_spamblock@baxcode.com says...   
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   >>> Attila  wrote in   
   >>> news:jmndgjtok5hdbii7vgj0snvg9uaph6k0d0@4ax.com:   
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   >>> > On Wed, 9 Oct 2024 18:57:32 -0000 (UTC), Baxter   
   >>> >  in alt.atheism with message-id   
   >>> >  wrote:   
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   >>> >>Attila  wrote in   
   >>> >>news:o9gdgjpgf57h60tgth968vucalfjmp6kli@4ax.com:   
   >>> >>   
   >>> >>> I keep wondering how this unrealized capital gains will   
   >>> >>> work.  If I bought a stock for $10,000 and it is now worth   
   >>> >>> $8000.00 can I claim a $2000 capital loss?   
   >>> >>>   
   >>> >>We're not talking about taxing your puny $10K - we're talking   
   >>> >>about Billionair$ .  Your wealth is not a mountain, it's not even   
   >>> >>a molehill.   
   >>> >   
   >>> > There is a bit of a problem.  If you take the entire wealth   
   >>> > of every billionaire it would not be nearly enough to come   
   >>> > close to paying the current national debt.  Add in the   
   >>> > multi-millionaires and it wouldn't help a lot.   
   >>> >   
   >>> And yet a handful (like 6) of Billionairs have more wealth than 50%   
   >>> of the   
   >>> US.   
   >>   
   >> So?   
   >   
   > Well, it's not even true.. they couldn't even cover last years deficit   
   > much less this year's so once we have stripped them of their wealth   
   > and politicians have pissed it away.. who do we blame/tax next?   
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   The wealthiest 3 billionaires in the U.S. – Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and   
   Warren Buffett — now have as much wealth as the bottom half of the U.S.   
   population combined.   
      
   https://inequality.org/great-divide/bernie-3-billionaires-more-wealth-   
   half-america/   
      
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   Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett have more wealth than half the   
   population of the US combined   
      
   https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/09/gates-bezos-buffett-have-more-wealth-   
   than-half-the-us-combined.html   
      
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   The three richest people in the US – Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Warren   
   Buffett – own as much wealth as the bottom half of the US population, or   
   160 million people.   
      
   Analysis of the wealth of America’s richest people found that Gates,   
   Bezos and Buffett were sitting on a combined $248.5bn (£190bn) fortune.   
   The Institute for Policy Studies said the growing gap between rich and   
   poor had created a “moral crisis”.   
      
   https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/nov/08/bill-gates-jeff-bezos-   
   warren-buffett-wealthier-than-poorest-half-of-us   
      
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