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  • For New York, train goes via Toronto. It’s 16h by train vs 9.5h by car. 9 hours is right at the limit of what I would consider not-insane for a weekend trip (19h travel for 38h visit gives 2:1 ratio of visit:travel time).

  • The “cross country in a weekend” is a bit of an exaggeration but Detroit to Chicago, Detroit to Minneapolis, Detroit to New York City should be perfectly reasonable for a weekend trip if trains went at a reasonable high speed.

    There’s zero reason for train to be slower than automobile.

  • You are wrong in terminology. Capital gains tax is not the same as income tax. The “realized“ term you mentioned is already redundant with the “gains”. If it’s unrealized there is no gain.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_gains_tax

    However, it’s also possible to tax capital itself. This is normally referred to as a wealth tax

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_tax

    You seem to be under the impression that these existing categories are the only kinds of tax that can exist. In reality, it’s entirely possible to structure taxes in any way that people can devise.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_taxes