Allison Schrager
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first heard Oct 2024
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Morning Wire · Trump Stares Down Iran & Mamdani’s Plan To Squash Landlords | 5.28.26 · 28 May 2026
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In fact, made employees more valuable.
It's so hard to predict.
It's like, imagine it's 1910 and you're sitting down with someone and you're telling them,
In, you know, 115 years, only 2% of the population is going to work in agriculture.
But there'll be this other job called a cybersecurity expert.
Yeah.
I mean, first of all, they probably wouldn't get past 2% working in agriculture.
If AI works like any other technology, it will create jobs that we can't even imagine right now.
Anytime.
Thank you.
Yeah, I'm good.
Allison Schrager. I'm a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and columnist at Bloomberg Opinion.
Yes. I like how you put think tank in quotes.
Yeah, you know, I do spend a lot of time thinking, which makes me feel like I don't work that hard because the amount of hours in a day I'm actually doing something like writing or doing things like this is actually minimal, but I do think a lot.
I agree they should be paying more in taxes. Okay. I'm not against that idea. I just, how you structure your tax system is important to me. In a perfect world, I wouldn't think anyone should pay any tax, but the fact is we do need a functioning government, and we've committed to a lot of things that people are counting on, and we need money.
And everyone's going to have to pay more taxes, and they have more money, so they should pay more.
I don't agree with taxing unrealized gains. There are credible economists who think differently. This is a conversation we should have, but like, I think it's just impractical. And the ability to collect a tax you levy is actually very important and it's important consideration. First of all, it's very hard to tax wealth because it's really hard to put a value on wealth.
When you tax a capital gain, I mean, there's a financial transaction you can observe and you can tax that.
Exactly. It's like taxing income. You know, you observe your income and then you pay a tax on it. And this makes collecting it easier. But how do you measure an unrealized gain? So is it just like December 31st, the value of your portfolio and then what you pay the tax on April 15th? What do you do if there's a loss? Do they get a tax credit?
which is when you buy an asset, when you sell it, you pay tax based on what the price was when you bought it versus what you were when you sold it. But if you die and leave it to your heirs, it's not based on when you bought it.
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