Biden's capital gains tax proposal could
crush the economy, experts say
Fox News,
by
Thomas Catenacci
Original Article
Posted By: Moritz55,
4/26/2024 8:01:34 AM
President Biden's latest proposal to hike the top capital gains tax rate to its highest level in more than a century is facing heavy criticism from experts who warn such an action could significantly harm the U.S. economy. According to a report issued by the Treasury Department, led by Secretary Janet Yellen, the president's proposed fiscal year 2025 budget would increase the top marginal rate on long-term capital gains and qualified dividends to a staggering 44.6%. A capital gains tax hike of that magnitude would take the rate to its highest level since it was first introduced in the early 1920s.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
mifla 4/26/2024 8:55:10 AM (No. 1706391)
That's the plan.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
smokincol 4/26/2024 9:14:02 AM (No. 1706405)
which has been his intent from the very first day, courtesy of comrade obama and he rest of the commies in the demcommie party
Question: if they destroy this country, from the top to the bottom ... what do they have and where do they go to find the same kind of statehood that exists in this USofA?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Muguy 4/26/2024 9:26:27 AM (No. 1706416)
Could?
Wait until they confiscate everyone's retirement savings and not just investment gains!
They were trial ballooning the idea of taxing gains every year before any money was taken out LAST YEAR and the plan is to raise taxes so they can keep spending and printing money "so the deficit" doesn't so bad
Poppy Bush lost his re-election with his "read my lips" pledge and then the demonrats seduced him with the notion of "spending more money, but using the revenue to 'pay down the deficit'". The result-- H. Ross Perot getting 19% of the vote and BJ Clinton winning the Presidency with a plurality of the popular vote.
With that, the rise of Hitlery Clinton trying to force HillaryCare upon us in closed-door meetings to hoodwink the public and everything has gone to he double hocky sticks since RiNO McPain and Mittens gave in to the New World Order department of State One Worlders!~
Government control of your hard earned dollars is the ultimate goal with you have to support 20 Million ILLEGALS who they will somehow give the right to cancel your vote so their welfare is not cut off.
You pull the wagon while they ride! We all know how that will end-- in the total destruction of your individual lives to live a free people WITHOUT tyrannical government control....
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
stablemoney 4/26/2024 9:57:45 AM (No. 1706443)
Biden intends to complete the communization of America by removing all investment from the private sector, and having the government take that over. Liberals once for freedom. No more. Now they are for massive government that rules every detail of life.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Pearson365 4/26/2024 9:59:01 AM (No. 1706445)
1. Since blacks are not allowed to own stocks, raising the cap gains tax reduces white privilege. Sarcasm.
2. Biden’s plan for a 44% cap gain tax is simply to negotiate a slightly less harmful increase to 38%. With a one vote margin in the House, Repubs will have a difficult time stopping tax increases and the termination of the pro growth Trump tax cuts.
3. Biden and Dems aren’t giving generous welfare benefits to 10+ million more illegals for nothing. The threat of losing free rent, free medical, free food, free lawyers along with possible deportation will produce eager Biden voters. Combine illegals voting with the Dem’s voter fraud campaign and Biden, Kamala, Newsom and their ilk will never lose.
Holding onto power is more important to Dems than holding onto our country.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
kennedylaw 4/26/2024 10:26:08 AM (No. 1706472)
Most of our net worth is in real estate (land and my office) that we purchased 25 years ago. We have depreciated the improvements over the years and have very little basis left. Whenever we sell it will be almost entirely capital gains. If Biden is re-elected, we are going to have to liquidate everything before his 50% capital gains tax kicks in.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
paral04 4/26/2024 11:05:47 AM (No. 1706512)
Have the BIden crime family paid taxes on all their ill gotten gains? They need to ante up first before hitting hard working people up for even more money.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 4/26/2024 11:09:23 AM (No. 1706522)
Not could, will.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
rytwng 4/26/2024 11:28:47 AM (No. 1706542)
He can't get any dumber unless they remove his pea sized brain.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
mobyclik 4/26/2024 11:48:29 AM (No. 1706563)
Remember those 87,000 armed IRS thugs Biden hired?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 4/26/2024 11:55:59 AM (No. 1706568)
Demoncrats are always wanting to raise all taxes, especially capital gains. They always tell us this is taxing the rich even though those of us in the middle are the ones hurt most. Dems always tell people how much more revenue this will bring in although it has been proven over and over to actually decrease revenue. So everything they say is a lie but it has the advantage (to them) of destroying the economy for individuals and small business whom they have an incredible hatred toward.
To add to the harm this time, they are trying to apply capital gains taxes to imagined increases in value for assets that haven't even been sold so that an unimaginable amount off cash would have to be kept on hand in order to hold onto any asset, thereby destroying the ability of us small people being able to invest in any individual property even more.
Communism, here we come!!!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
chance_232 4/26/2024 12:57:14 PM (No. 1706618)
Those of us planning to retire with a 401k plan to fund retirement are screwed.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
formerNYer 4/26/2024 1:00:26 PM (No. 1706621)
Could? Thne economy is alreadt crushed. Stupid Fox.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 4/26/2024 1:51:39 PM (No. 1706653)
The goal of Marxists everywhere is to eliminate private property (except for themselves in the elite dictatorship). Marx/Engles wrote that ownership of property was what kept the "middle class" from being revolutionized, in particular, in the USA. But the Bolsheviks dealt with it too, amongst those dang kulaks, the "rich peasants" (never underestimate the Left's skill at oxymorons}, who, gullible fools that they were, believed Lenin when he promised "Land, Bread and Peace." All the peasants wanted was that little patch of garden they could call their own. Lenin said, Nuttin' doin'. "Hang a kulak from every lamppost," everyone else will get the message.
By the way, the cap gains on property will be taxed annually, as I understand it.
You say, But the Bidens and Kerry/Hines, Obamas, and probably most of their donors, et al, own multiple properties, won't they stop such taxation in their own interest? No worries! They do not live under the burden of the laws they excrete. Examples abound of how the elites across the panoply of commie/socialist regimes are exempt from onerous laws and taxes... and they'll rule over the rest of us with the "iron fist."
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 4/26/2024 2:24:05 PM (No. 1706670)
This would really wreck the whole system of stock and bond investment for retirement by most people.
Dems DESTROY and their Communist plans always cause poverty and misery. Free markets create wealth, comfort, and good lives.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 4/26/2024 4:16:03 PM (No. 1706741)
They want to tax "unrealized value". So, you bought a home for $60K 35 years ago, and it's paid off and you live in it. If you sold it, it would sell for $190K, but you intend to live in it, not sell it......so, you owe taxes on $130,000 that you NEVER HAVE GOTTEN.
That is how your literally destroy the middle class in this country. These literal Communists are intent on destroying the economy, and impoverishing everyone.
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