>A 50% chance of recovery in 6 months is still a drastic improvement over a 0% chance of recovery if you lost money in stocks.
Not from a taxation standpoint. And investors shouldn't get better tax rates than workers because their is a non-zero chance of losing their investment, if nothing else the deduction of their loss is already built into the system so why give them additional lower rates?
>But you could easily invest several years of worth of salary in the stock market, and lose the majority if it crashes hard enough.
The only people who can "invest several years of worth of salary in the stock market" are independently wealthy people. Again 40% of the country don't have $400 in savings, the numbers speak for themselves the median savings of the top 10% is $170k (even that wouldn't be several years of salary for them).
Risk has nothing to do with capital gains being lower than payroll/income taxes.
Not from a taxation standpoint. And investors shouldn't get better tax rates than workers because their is a non-zero chance of losing their investment, if nothing else the deduction of their loss is already built into the system so why give them additional lower rates?
>But you could easily invest several years of worth of salary in the stock market, and lose the majority if it crashes hard enough.
The only people who can "invest several years of worth of salary in the stock market" are independently wealthy people. Again 40% of the country don't have $400 in savings, the numbers speak for themselves the median savings of the top 10% is $170k (even that wouldn't be several years of salary for them).
Risk has nothing to do with capital gains being lower than payroll/income taxes.