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Land can have buildings on it. It might have resources like water, oil, minerals, timber, that can be used. It's a shared resource and we pay society for exclusive use of it.

What "productive use" are you going to get out of a share of Amazon stock?

The company itself will do productive things, but taxing people to hold the stock is going to make them do what productive thing, exactly?




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