re: #546 Obdicut

It can make you more likely to kick your money in, though, if it’s a safer investment. That is part of the risk/reward moving around.

hmm, that’s true - a safer investment is mathematically a more enticing investment to make. The topic was whether taxation makes it LESS enticing, and taxation actually has no impact on its safety (unless you want to say it actually reduces the safety, due to the bottom line risk/reward…)

Right now, we have a huge emphasis on short-term profit over long-term. I would prefer a scaled capital gains tax that lowered every year you were invested, rather than poofing after a year.

THAT I will agree with completely.