(05-01-2024, 08:13 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(05-01-2024, 07:32 PM)Sneakers Wrote: You're confusing hourly workers with part-time workers.  Many hourly employees work a consistent schedule with little or no variation in pay. 

An employee is free to seek other and/or supplemental employment in a slow period and many in seasonal industries do so.  When the value of stock decreases, an investor cannot simply liquidate the asset, recover the money and put it into another investment because the principal has been reduced.

If you want to argue that all income, regardless of inherent risk, should be taxed equally fine, that's an opinion and you're entitled to it, but don't try to justify it by claiming the risks are the same, because they're not.

The risks are different but not different enough to justify special treatment.