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To: conservative98
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is proposing a 2 percent annual tax on citizens with a net worth of over $50 billion.

This one should scare everyone, because it is a tax on wealth, not income. Also, they didn't mention it is a 3% tax on wealth above $1 billion and an additional 2% above $50 billion. That's a $30 million dollar tax on the first billion in wealth. Now, if you had to pay that every year, could you move outside the US for less than $30m? My guess is: Yes. Sen. Warren is stupid enough not to realize that it is this very wealth group that fund most of the investment projects that create jobs for everyone else. Lunacy!

17 posted on 02/04/2019 1:13:28 PM PST by econjack
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To: econjack

Accountants and economists already have difficulty defining “income” properly. Defining “wealth” is even more difficult.


21 posted on 02/04/2019 1:21:29 PM PST by riverdawg
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To: econjack

Not only that, $50B is just the “dangle”. It will end up being something like $1M in assets because there isn’t enough money in people over $50B.


50 posted on 02/04/2019 1:57:08 PM PST by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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