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Joe Biden and the Democrats Want To Raise Taxes on Everything
National Interest ^ | 3/17/2021 | Grover Norquist

Posted on 03/18/2021 4:37:22 AM PDT by Onthebrink

Biden has threatened to hike the corporate income tax to either 35% (repealing the entire Trump tax cut as he has promised repeatedly during the campaign) or to 28% (which his staff discusses.) Either would bring the U.S. business tax higher than China’s 25% corporate income tax rate. When Biden was Obama’s Vice President the U.S. tax rate was 35%, ten percentage points higher than China’s 25%.

In 2014 more than $360 billion in U.S. corporate assets announced loans to invert, to leave the U.S. Our higher corporate rate and worldwide -- rather than territorial -- tax system made the U.S. uncompetitive. Biden would return us to that zone.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; History; Politics
KEYWORDS: democrats; joebiden; tax; taxes
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1 posted on 03/18/2021 4:37:22 AM PDT by Onthebrink
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To: Onthebrink

Raising taxes reduces overall revenue. It is killing the goose that lays the golden eggs, and of no benefit to either the goose or the revenues.


2 posted on 03/18/2021 4:40:14 AM PDT by alloysteel (¡Viva la Revolución! It worked for Castro....)
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To: Onthebrink

China is a fascist country so their business tax rate is irrelevant


3 posted on 03/18/2021 4:42:30 AM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory. )
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To: alloysteel

I haven’t seen the numbers published lately, but it is a known fact that a dollar invested in the private sector turns over many more times than a dollar confiscated by the government and poured into a government program.


4 posted on 03/18/2021 4:43:41 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Potemkin Joe - Everything about him is fake)
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To: All

So, what else is new?

They always want to raise taxes on everything.

They realize that it reduces revenue; They don’t care, because they see it as punishment for success more than they see it as money they can spend...They have treasury bonds and FED Fiat for money to spend and buy votes.


5 posted on 03/18/2021 4:44:37 AM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: Onthebrink

They’re going to have to raise taxes if the country is to survive. Raise taxes and slash services.


6 posted on 03/18/2021 4:45:34 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: Onthebrink

So, you all better spend your lousy $1400 now before the government takes it all back through taxation.


7 posted on 03/18/2021 4:51:20 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: Onthebrink

Here is a message for Bidet: companies do not pay taxes, the people who buy their product pay the taxes. I know that concept is beyond his 85IQ, and diminishing each day, but that is the way things work.

Lastly Present Bidet, when you send out piles of money from the treasury without regard to what is coming in you are never going to balance the budget on the backs of those “at the top” or taxes paid by companies because 50% of our residents pay no income taxes anyway.

Welcome Comrade will be the new address here soon.


8 posted on 03/18/2021 4:51:21 AM PDT by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media.)
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To: cuban leaf

They’re going to have to raise taxes if the country is to survive. Raise taxes and slash services.

This country is not going to survive on its current path, that is correct. Raising taxes, or revenue. IMO, we need a flat tax, everyone pays. Only 50% of population has skin in the game now. When one pays, even a dollar, they watch their demands.

As far as services go, 90% of the public thinks the government creates the largess they get. Never going to change. The morons in congress want to let in another millions of dolts who cannot take care of themselves. Who do you think is going to pay for them? We have debased Citizenship here to second class status which is evident by the move to open the borders and grant anmesty.

Were done, try to ride it out.


9 posted on 03/18/2021 5:02:56 AM PDT by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media.)
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To: virgil

“So, you all better spend your lousy $1400 now before the government takes it all back through taxation”

It will be gone from inflation and gas prices long before that.


10 posted on 03/18/2021 5:04:16 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: Mouton

Were done, try to ride it out.


Yeah. Yer preaching to the choir on that one. I’ve been a doom and gloomer on this stuff since before the Rona nonsense. That just sealed the deal. This is why it was so important, after my dad died (at 90) last June, to drive from KY to Seattle to pick up the five guns and many thousands of rounds of ammo he left me.

And my tag line was born last summer, but only applied late last year. The rapidity of the collapse of our country from within that has already happened will be one for the history books. But it’s about to get a LOT worse, and as we have utter incompetence at the helm.


11 posted on 03/18/2021 5:18:17 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: cuban leaf

Welcome to Joe & Camel-A new USSA.... United Socialist state of aMeriKa


12 posted on 03/18/2021 5:22:43 AM PDT by ncfool (Joe Biden USSA.. United Socialist state of aMeriKa...... 11.3.2020 - President in waiting Kama-la-la)
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To: virgil

Take the $1400 to Las Vegas and play roulette.


13 posted on 03/18/2021 5:30:49 AM PDT by sanjuanbob (Do NOT buy Chinese Products)
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To: Mouton

You are right about raising taxes on everyone. But that must be accompanied by cutting spending.
But won’t happen because not popular politically.


14 posted on 03/18/2021 5:31:51 AM PDT by entropy12 (Elections have consequences. Stolen elections have severe consequences.)
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To: Onthebrink

It boils down to this, you cannot educate a socialist with facts. The world they live in do not accept truth or facts

For instance, my liberal inlaws think Roosevelt was the best president ever. When you try to tell them the facts about his policies they will not hear it.

Hell my MIL wears double masks after she has had the vaccine because Dickter Fauci says we should be. Clueless


15 posted on 03/18/2021 5:34:52 AM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT)
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To: Mouton

85, boy you are generous


16 posted on 03/18/2021 5:35:39 AM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT)
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To: alloysteel
Raising taxes reduces overall revenue. It is killing the goose that lays the golden eggs, and of no benefit to either the goose or the revenues.

Not necessarily. Depends on where you currently fall on the Laffer curve.

17 posted on 03/18/2021 5:38:35 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Onthebrink

Good. Stupid should hurt.


18 posted on 03/18/2021 5:46:47 AM PDT by brownsfan (Term limits! Without term limits, we are doomed.)
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To: Onthebrink

Yep.
The Federales printed an enormous sum of money. Now they need to get it out of circulation before it (further) destroys the value of the dollary.


19 posted on 03/18/2021 5:54:00 AM PDT by Little Ray (The Government is always its own largest and most important Special Interest. .)
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To: virgil

I plan to pay off my property taxes with it,, well part of them anyway. So it all goes back to them anyway.


20 posted on 03/18/2021 6:06:13 AM PDT by mware (RETIRED)
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