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- From: mrh@centerline.com (Mike Huben)
- Newsgroups: alt.politics.libertarian
- Subject: Re: Gold v. Oil: Backed Currency
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 14:59:03 GMT
- Organization: CenterLine Software, Inc.
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- References: <JBV=qg+@engin.umich.edu> <1992Dec20.042949.10541@pegasus.com> <1992Dec22.083532.17043@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec22.083532.17043@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee) writes:
- >As I pointed out earlier, there are things called sales taxes and income taxes
- >(and others) which interfere if you try converting your dollars to something
- >such as gold when you store them.
-
- I'm afraid the issue of taxes is quite a bit more complicated, and perhaps
- irrelevant to the issue of gold.
-
- First, most sales taxes are local retail taxes. By purchasing gold interstate
- (or perhaps by using a brokerage) you would avoid those taxes. I strongly
- doubt that taxes are paid on all purchases of commodities through brokers:
- that would really cramp the volume of trade.
-
- Second, you pay income taxes on all gains, be they interest on dollars
- or profits from selling gold. Thus, income taxes are no more a deterrent
- to investing in gold than they are to investing in any other manner.
- If anything, gold has an advantage over putting your dollars into interest-
- bearing accounts: you are only taxed when you cash in, rather than annually.
-
- In short, taxes are not more of a deterrent to converting your money to gold
- than they are to making any other sort of investment.
-
- Mike Huben
-
- "I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked
- at it the right way, did not become still more complicated." Poul Anderson
-