Taxing unrealised capital gains is like paying GST on opportunity cost—you're being charged for something that hasn't actually happened. It assumes everyone can sell assets and realise profits on demand, but markets don't work that way. When everyone tries to cash in at once just to pay their tax bills, values plummet, and that so-called 'gain' can vanish overnight. It's a tax on imagined profits, not real income, ignoring the basic reality that you can't guarantee a profit until you actually sell. Let's stick to taxing what people truly earn, not what we hope they might.