Allison Schrager
speaker
190 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard Oct 2024
last heard 2 Jul
Allison Schrager’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So suppose you start a company. Suppose you're Jeff Bezos and you kept Amazon private and he died tomorrow.
And he left this private company to his children or even if it was public and they sold all their shares, they wouldn't pay a capital gains tax on it.
Yeah. And that actually is a distortion that does encourage people to never sell their assets because it's better just to leave it to your heirs.
Exactly.
Step-up in basis is something economists love to talk about getting rid of. But, you know, you always get, like, the farmer who has the family farm, right? And he leaves the family farm to his kids, and all of a sudden they have this huge tax bill.
That's very compelling for people who aren't economists.
I have no idea because I don't see any political will. I think everyone's looking for we can just take this money from rich people, but the fact is we're probably all going to have to pay more taxes.
They don't have enough money.
They got a lot of money, but not enough to pay for our debt and our functioning government moving forward.
Yeah. You know, no one really wants to hear that.
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