For some reason you think your government's tax department got it right how to tax MNs rewards and using their faulty accounting you apply that to the network and come up with 2+2=5.
No, I'm not doing that. You've never understood this argument and I don't expect you to understand it now. Just more "it has value if people say it has" hand waving from your posts.
At $1000 per Dash the masternode network would get paid $300 MILLION per year. Can you fathom that ? Since most of it's pure profit there's a theoretical, say $100 million worth of Dash that needs to get sold just to pay tax authorities and hitting the highest tax rate bands. To me this is bonkers. This doesn't happen with mining.
Are you sure? In several jurisdictions that I know, masternode rewards are exactly like mining income, tax-wise. (i.e. earnings for services on a given network)
Also, do you imply that miners sell less frequently than masternode operators?
Yes, I'm sure. Masternodes have fixed operating costs and miners have variable ones that scale on average (due to difficulty increase with price). Masternode costs do not scale, so as Dash price increases, almost all of masternode income is taxable whereas only the same scaleable percentage of mining profits are.