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The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily
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Myth.
You can transfer the stocks themselves to the IRS, and leave the IRS with the responsibility for liquidating them. We can require the IRS to look at the total traded volume of any issue they acquire, and prohibit them from selling more than 1% of that volume in the same time period. Liquidated shares will comprise no more than 1%; those shares will not significantly affect the market value of the issue.
"Stock" is what the ownership interest is distributed among multiple people. When two people equally build a business together, they each hold a "share" of that business's "stock". Banning "stocks" means banning every type of joint ownership, which is every type of business except "sole proprietorship" and "government enterprise". Banning stocks is only feasible in a completely centralized economy.
Banning Bonds and Loans is even less feasible, and results in even more absurdities. Taken to extremes, your Amazon driver would have to collect payment at time of delivery, not at time of order. Payment before delivery could be considered a type of loan. Likewise, a business's order to a vendor for supplies would have to be paid at time of delivery. Any other time would be considered a "loan" one way or another.