<p dir="ltr">On Oct 31, 2016 8:01 AM, "spike" <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> Should the Federal government try to institute a tax based on what we own, capital flees along with the owners of that capital, it and they cannot even be traced. It is converted to gold, silver, other assets which cannot be found. Wealth disappears into forms which do not employ anyone or create new wealth. So… the Fed doesn’t do that. So… the Fed cannot afford to deal with the newly unemployed. So… it falls to states and locals which have the authority to tax property.</p>
<p dir="ltr">By that argument, why does money not flee the state & local?</p>
<p dir="ltr">Also, I recall that argument used against higher federal taxes and it mostly not coming true. Wealth goes where it will make more wealth - even if the taxes are higher, but not high enough to cancel out that increase.</p>
<p dir="ltr">(As for conversion to gold & silver - that's just transfer of wealth to those selling gold & silver. Only so much is dug up per year; price increases can't make new mines appear, and only long term increases can make marginally unprofitable mines profitable.)</p>