Quote Originally Posted by GeoFisher View Post
If I make 100k and paid TAXES on that 100k and then I put 10k of that in a stock plan, and that stock plan tripled, I should NOT have to pay the same rate of taxes on the REALIZED GAINS. I RISKED losing 10k, investing and gambling in a company. The rate of tax on that gain should be significantly lower, maybe even ZERO.......Otherwise no one will ever risk money.......Don't you get that??
If higher capital gains tax is going to make people back off of investing, why is it that so much MORE investing going on back in the 80's and 90's, when capital gains taxes were so much higher?

NO, I don't get that.