Or picked apart by private equity vultures at the expense of pension funds.

That’s not true at all. Loss of controlling ownership makes a company vulnerable to a hostile takeover. The new owners will pick it apart like the vultures they are.

RIP grannies pension plan

What you are proposing would fundamentally break price discovery on the open market as everyone’s tax burden would need to be continually calculated. That just isn’t feasible.

To expand on that, you should also pay tax on unrealized gains used as collateral for a loan.

“Sorry grandma, you have to eat cat food now because Elon was forced to sell his majority stake in Tesla crashing your pension plan.”

Elon would have triggered a taxable event using his wealth to buy Twitter.

Nice!

While this water temp is concerning, the Amazon river is also dammed preventing the dolphins from fleeing to cooler water.

If you don’t plan on using the AC unit anymore, just convert one of the hots into a neutral (mark both ends with white tape) . You’ll need to switch to a single pole breaker though.

Ground wires in Canada are un-insulated, and not rated to carry continuous current. Huge electrical code violation doing this.

Better off just converting one of the hot wires to a neutral (tag the wire with white tape please), and moving the circuit to a single pole breaker.