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Biden Weighs Raising Capital Gains Rate to Over 40 Percent
National Review ^ | April 22, 2021 | Zachary Evans

Posted on 04/23/2021 9:54:31 AM PDT by Aquamarine

President Biden is expected to announce a proposal to nearly double the capital gains tax rate in order to help fund a forthcoming spending package, according to multiple reports.

The proposal would set the capital gains tax rate for individuals earning over $1 million at 39.6 percent, two people familiar with the plan told Bloomberg. When combined with an existing federal surtax on investment income, investors could pay federal taxes at a rate of as high as 43.4 percent.

In states with high taxes, rates for wealthy individuals could be even higher. New Yorkers making over $1 million would see combined federal and state capital gains tax rates of as high as 52.22 percent, while California residents in the same income bracket could see a 56.7 percent combined federal and state capital gains rate.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: capitalgains; taxes; theft
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1 posted on 04/23/2021 9:54:31 AM PDT by Aquamarine
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To: Aquamarine

“bipoc” impacted the most. No?


2 posted on 04/23/2021 9:55:18 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: Aquamarine

Democrats who make money on inside trading won’t like this.


3 posted on 04/23/2021 9:56:03 AM PDT by Bayard
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To: Bayard
Democrats who make money on inside trading won’t like this.

Oh, please, like they'd suffer the consequences. The middle class will just get soaked, as always.

4 posted on 04/23/2021 9:56:38 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Aquamarine

To DemonRATs harming the economy is a feature. It’s what they seek.


5 posted on 04/23/2021 9:58:22 AM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Aquamarine

To bad Biden isn’t to announce a proposal for freezer money inspection in D.C..


6 posted on 04/23/2021 9:59:12 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Aquamarine

Taxes, ah yes, Article II of the Constitution, POTUS has the power to set taxes.


7 posted on 04/23/2021 9:59:46 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Aquamarine

Capital gains are racist.


8 posted on 04/23/2021 10:00:06 AM PDT by Shadylake
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To: Shadylake

Capital is racist.


9 posted on 04/23/2021 10:02:00 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: dfwgator

Folks are speculating bitcoin gains to get pounded.


10 posted on 04/23/2021 10:02:31 AM PDT by NativeSon ( )
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To: Aquamarine

Land of opportunity is now a myth.


11 posted on 04/23/2021 10:05:22 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Aquamarine

wonder what that works out to on a BTC bought in the last few years, IRS say yuuuum yummmm...


12 posted on 04/23/2021 10:08:34 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there is no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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To: Aquamarine

This is one of those things (Capital Gains Tax) which will require congressional approval. Not likely to happen. I would like to see him make a proposal rather than blather about it.


13 posted on 04/23/2021 10:09:27 AM PDT by Tallguy
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To: Aquamarine

destroying USA includes destroying the economy, businesses, and jobs

it is that simple


14 posted on 04/23/2021 10:09:48 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born, they are excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: unixfox

Tax dodges will pop up like flowers in the spring.


15 posted on 04/23/2021 10:10:13 AM PDT by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: Aquamarine

If they pass this and eliminate the real estate basis step-up when a spouse dies, about 2/3 of our kids’ inheritance gets stolen. This absolutely sickens me. I want my lifetime savings to go to my kids, not the God Damned government which will waste it on Democrat marxist projects to destroy America and Western Civilization. The very idea of stealing our wealth to pay for “human infrastructure” is beyond infuriating.

God, I sure do miss President Trump. Every day Biden heaps another massive insult onto hard-working Americans.


16 posted on 04/23/2021 10:10:45 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (Real happiness is one that you share)
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To: Seruzawa

it’s called Domestic Economic Terrorism.


17 posted on 04/23/2021 10:10:57 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there is no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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To: Aquamarine

bookmark


18 posted on 04/23/2021 10:11:44 AM PDT by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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To: Bayard

Quick trades ...like stock options given at time of sale of business ...are treated as ordinary income

Not capital gains

I think at least it used to be.....one had to keep an asset a year

This is not good for anyone but uniparty to pay off their body apparatus


19 posted on 04/23/2021 10:13:07 AM PDT by wardaddy (P IN 1999 JIM THOMPSON WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE BUSHES ...WE WERE WRONG lz’’z:s)
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To: Aquamarine

capital gains are taxed only when they are sold and become realized
Beware any proposed taxes on ‘Unrealized Capital Gains’.


20 posted on 04/23/2021 10:13:29 AM PDT by griswold3
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