The point is you have already paid taxes on it multiple times. The cookie stealing children, I mean the gubbamint wants to tax it as many times as possible untill the system totally breaks.
That is the part I do not understand...I buy something with AFTER TAX income, get tired of it, and sell it for half what I paid. That sounds like a LOSS, to me, because I ate the depreciation.
If I were a "Power Seller", and bought a shipping container of rubber poodle poop from Taiwan, and sold it for a 200%markup, that is different..That is just simply a "store".