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This is completely, totally, objectively false.

> It’s simply pay for use.

This is false. Toll roads are "pay for use". Capital gains tax is, objectively, not "pay for use".

> Anyone with more than 100M in assets has used the system a shit ton

There's zero evidence that supports a strong correlation between how many assets someone has and how much value they've obtained from government services. This is just entirely fabricated.

> and owes a lot back into it

...which they've already actually paid through taxes on profits.

This bundle of falsehoods is just a thin facade around the emotional plea that "someone having more money than me is bad, and I should get some of it".




"Your opinions are completely, totally, objectively false. Here are 3 of my opinions and unsubstantiated conjectures that prove so."


I stated facts.

Pointing out that toll roads are "pay for use" is factually true.

Capital gains tax is, factually, not "pay for use". There's no usage that is being metered.

You also claimed "Anyone with more than 100M in assets has used the system a shit ton" and I pointed out that there is no evidence that supports a strong correlation between how many assets someone has and how much value they've obtained from government services. This is, again, a fact - had you had any evidence against this, you could have put it here, in your reply. But no, you didn't have evidence, so you tried to (incorrectly) portray it as an "opinion".

You calling my true statements "opinions" proves that you cannot differentiate between opinions and reality. The fact that you think that pointing out that capital gains tax is not pay for use is a conjecture proves that you literally cannot tell the difference between facts and opinions.


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