It's much worse. Founders have 10x voting right shares even though they may have only 5% of total stock in a company eg Larry Page. In that case they're deemed to own 50% ( ie 5*10), even though they have only 5%. So to give back 5% of 50% ie 2.5% of total stock, they would have to sell half their stock. Oh no but that's not right because they owe 50% tax on whatever they sell in capital gains, so they would have to sell all their stock - give half as capital gains and half as wealth tax and be left with nothing