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Assume 0.1% wealth tax applied after 1 billion in wealth.

Sell your startup for 1billion.

Put it into market returning 7% for 60 years.

You'll pay 779 Million in taxes.

Your money will earn nearly $50 billion in that time.

That is 1.51904% of your wealth.



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