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A top senator wants to tax the cash piles the wealthy are sitting on - and Biden agrees with him
Business Insider via MSN ^ | Sept. 2, 2021 | Ayelet Sheffey, Juliana Kaplan

Posted on 09/24/2021 5:47:44 PM PDT by libstripper

Senate Finance Chair Ron Wyden wants to tax billionaires' unrealized wealth gains annually.

Biden said he supports the proposal as a potential method to fund Democrats' social-spending bill.

"I come from the corporate state of America," Biden said. "I just think it's about just paying your fair share, for Lord's sake."

House Democrats have proposed a whole host of options to pay for their $3.5 trillion social-spending bill which includes measures like universal pre-K, tuition-free community college, and paid leave for workers.

One of those options, proposed by Senate Finance Chair Ron Wyden, is a change to the way the government taxes earnings on assets like stocks and bonds. It would mainly affect the wealthy, because their wealth usually derives from investments more than salaries. The gains on those assets - which are called capital gains - are taxed at a far loewer rate than income brought in through wages. The top marginal tax rate on income is 37%; capital gains for the wealthiest Americans are taxed just up to 20%.

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York; US: Oregon
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To: libstripper

So if they tax your unrealized profit in BGEN and it reports a drug failed, sending the stock down 40% and your position to a loss, they will refund the money and issue you a credit? Didn’t think so.


101 posted on 09/25/2021 3:22:20 PM PDT by montag813
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To: libstripper

“I come from the corporate state of America,” Biden said. “I just think it’s about just paying your fair share, for Lord’s sake.”

Says the tax deadbeat who owes the IRS $500K.


102 posted on 09/25/2021 4:18:23 PM PDT by Flick Lives (We may or may not have reached herd immunity, but we've definitely achieved herd stupidity.)
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To: libstripper
Tax the rich

Break apart all large corporations

103 posted on 09/25/2021 4:44:57 PM PDT by ReaganGeneration2 (Widespread belief in asymptomatic spread of a low-risk virus hastened the end of the West by 100 yrs)
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To: libstripper

Massive withdrawals, purchasing of gold, art, property, shifting assets to dark trusts, there is always a way for the wealthy. It’s not like the 0.5% rates are compelling to leave your money in a database that can be seized or hacked.


104 posted on 09/25/2021 5:23:23 PM PDT by monkeybrau
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To: ealgeone

This is why they more it overseas.....Rats are FOOLS.


105 posted on 09/26/2021 6:09:58 AM PDT by mastertex (mastertex)
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To: ScottinVA

What will they do with imputed losses?


106 posted on 09/26/2021 7:38:08 AM PDT by campaignPete R-CT (I owe, I owe, it's off to work I go ...)
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To: babygene

Capital Gains on Roth IRA monies are not currently taxed.


107 posted on 09/26/2021 8:05:32 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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To: campaignPete R-CT

Hunter will be reimbursed.


108 posted on 09/26/2021 8:06:14 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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To: libstripper

Would require a constitutional amendment as the only basis for taxation by Congress is the 16th amendment which only allows for the taxation of income.

However, I fully recognize that the Dems don’t think the constitution applies to them, their utopia, or the laws that they pass.


109 posted on 09/26/2021 9:15:42 AM PDT by taxcontrol (The choice is clear - either live as a slave on your knees or die as a free citizen on your feet.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Biden sounds like a filthy Mob Boss.
110 posted on 09/26/2021 9:33:16 AM PDT by caww ( )
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To: libstripper

Is Biden going to pay his $500,000.?


111 posted on 09/26/2021 10:11:32 AM PDT by Irenic ( )
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To: Fightin Whitey

The total estimated net worth of the 400 wealthiest Americans would only bring in $3.2 trillion. Less than last year’s federal deficit and less than the proposed $3.5 Billion proposed by the lunatic twins Pelosi and Sanders.

https://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/


112 posted on 09/26/2021 2:52:50 PM PDT by littleharbour ("You take on the intel community they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you" C. Schumer)
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To: roadcat

Biden isn’t even paying his “fair share” of the taxes he owes....and that’s been going on for a good bit of time. Is he paying fines on that as well?


113 posted on 09/26/2021 9:55:32 PM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo....Sum Pro Vita - Modified Descartes)
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To: All

guess what, we all just became “wealthy” and any savings aside from your monthly spending is now considered “piles of cash” and belongs in democrat campaign coffers.


114 posted on 09/27/2021 1:33:33 AM PDT by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: IndispensableDestiny
...I gut feel is if the government tried to tax them, it would drive a massive sell-off that would crush the stock and bond markets.

The Fed would prop up the stock market.

Look at the pension funds for IL, NY, and CA. They are all underfunded and all very heavily depend on stock investments. A market crash would make them drastically underfunded. Probably requiring tax increases in already heavily-taxed, predominately RAT, states.

115 posted on 09/27/2021 9:58:15 AM PDT by CurlyDave
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To: Salman

They want to take the retirement funds away then kill us with the jabs. No money left for retirement now? Who cares, you’ll be finished off soon by your destroyed immune system. Problem solved, woohoo!!

Solves SS, medicare problems and lots of other messy little issues that communist countries have problems with. It’s diabolical genius. These people are beyond evil. Stalin would be in awe.


116 posted on 09/27/2021 11:05:11 AM PDT by boxlunch (Texas: 10th Amendment/nullification or Texit? PS The MSM are complicit in war against us.)
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To: libstripper

Unconstitutional seizure.


117 posted on 09/27/2021 2:03:19 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (When elections fail, we will either live under tyranny or rebel and throw it off.)
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To: libstripper

Stupid, sh*tty moron doesn’t know what the F he’s talking about. But he does prove one thing, nobody is too stupid to live.


118 posted on 09/28/2021 5:28:01 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: MRadtke

They probably handle it like capital losses, a small maximum per year that becomes losses to be carried forward for many years...

Taxes on capital gains you owe immediately, taxes on capital losses—sit and wait for years...

Heads they win, tails you lose.


119 posted on 09/28/2021 5:32:10 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: libstripper

Will the Federal Government provide me with money from unrealized capital losses? No, the Federal Government will not.


120 posted on 09/28/2021 5:34:45 PM PDT by Chgogal (Biden's New Taliban, same as the old Taliban. America, we are so screwed.)
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