If there were a market for stupidity, I’d want drilling rights to your head.

Cool, engaging discussion. Don’t challenge yourself in anyway, you’ve got it figured out already, and anyone who shares anything that doesn’t fit, be mean.

You have an incredible attitude. Tax policy is fascinating and worth investigating. There is a long history of why the preferential capital gain rate was instituted, and the benefits resulting, the most important at the time was stimulating investment. With the present increases in wealth disparity, there are calls to shift policy. Somewhat recently there was a 5% increase for high income earners, and variations of the Build Back Better Act attempted to make more material changes, but did not pass.

Before tax policy, maybe research the Dunning-Kruger effect.

If you believe tax policy is simple, you’re probably not digging deeply enough into it.

Recipes can be patented, in the US at least.

Proven to the IRS, not to the public. Form 990 PF’s are publicly available, so if you’re patient you can review his private foundation’s return for 2023 in 2024 and reconcile the donation amounts to confirm it is the recipient.