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Musk famously borrowed money to pay his rent after plowing all his capital into his businesses:

http://pandodaily.com/2012/07/12/space-age-risks-and-profoun...

I'm sure he would have found a way to make do with 1% less capital. But what if rates had been 9% higher, as they will be going forward? What if rates were 28% higher, as they would be if cap gains were treated as ordinary income? At some point, either Space X or Tesla would have never been made.

The tragedy is that we will never know the future Space Xs that are never built.



So far I have only seen you mention the costs of the now increased taxes. What are the costs that would be payed if the taxes had not been increased?




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