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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries
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To: Moominoid who wrote (62594)4/23/2005 8:03:50 PM
From: energyplay  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
Capital gains not personal income - 1) Canada seems to count it.
2) There is an enormous tax incentive to arrange to get capital gains instead of taxable income.

I think those standards were developed in the 1930s, when capital transactions were rare events for most people, like selling the farm.

In world of stock options being a big fraction of pay in the technology industries, and many people trading stocks, plus people playing with real estate (examples all over SI), that standard really misses the boat.

I think this is another inadequate government statistic - like unemployment, the "hedonic" adjustmnets to the price index and to productivity, etc.
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