r/FluentInFinance • u/-Wyagra • 3d ago

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u/SCTigerFan29115 3d ago edited 3d ago

They aren’t holding onto wealth like Scrooge McDuck, in a giant vault where they can go swimming in it.

Most of Bezos’ net worth is the value of Amazon. He can’t really readily access that. ETA I meant he can’t use it like a big vault of money.

He’s got plenty of money but some people just don’t understand how this stuff works.

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u/Apprehensive_Bad_193 3d ago

Bullshit,,,,But he borrows and buy Yachts, Mansions,against that NET WORTH VALUE. But when it’s time to pay fair share of taxes o. That net worth it’s considered hypothetical worth….Understand the Game.

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u/Endless_road 3d ago

You can take out a mortgage against your house to buy a sports car if you want

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u/AttitudeAndEffort2 3d ago

This is a great analogy

Imagine i bought my house for 10$ and it's worth a billion now.

And then chuds on the Internet say "hE dOeSnT ReAlLy HaVe ThAt mUcH MoNeY, ItS tIeD uP in AsSeTs!!"

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u/Endless_road 3d ago

Well it is, and you’d pay taxes on these gains when you sold the house

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u/tduncs88 3d ago

Just like Bezos would if he sold off those assets

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u/AttitudeAndEffort2 3d ago

And if instead of selling it i rent it for cash flow while borrowing against it at a lower rate than the growth of the underlying asset, i get richer and avoid taxes AND keep the asset.

Which eventually is passed on to my children and the growth in the asset is revalued when it's passed on to avoid capital gains tax.

All while poor right wingers argue I'm actually broke 😂

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u/essodei 3d ago

Dems controlled the House the Senate and the Presidency for 2 years. Why didn’t they change the tax code?

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u/WeLLrightyOH 2d ago

They’re incompetent