The Exchanges

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Q So with all those changes though, how does that actually get put in practice?

A The inheritance tax. So there should be a step up, meaning like when you die, people don't realize this, but this is a big part of the problem. Not a big part, but this is another problem, which is if you die and you have a large asset base, your inheritors get to use the original, the value transfers and they get the step up. On their basis. So they don't pay. So now when they ultimately sell, no one paid the delta between what you paid and what they got it at. No one paid that tax. So that's another kind of thing that people hate if we bring it up and say, hey, this should happen. That's another way to fix another loophole in the tax code that's being created. So the asset transfer stuff, the difference between capital and income, the, um, the, the inheritance problem, the step up problem. These are things that can be fixed in the tax code, but none of it matters. If we don't stop the wasteful spending on housing, education, and healthcare, if we don't reform how the federal government plays a role in those markets causing runaway price escalation that makes all of those things so expensive that no one can afford them anymore, then none of the tax stuff actually matters. You've got to fix those three things, and if you don't fix those three things, and they're going to continue to compound up in cost, and no one's going to be able to afford a house, everyone's going to be stu…

AI assessment note: “These are things that can be fixed in the tax code, but none of it matters.”

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