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To: DoodleDawg
And he wants to balance the budget. How?

By raising taxes on hedge fund managers. /s

138 posted on 08/31/2015 8:45:28 AM PDT by randita (...Our First Lady is a congenital liar - William Safire, 1996)
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To: randita
By raising taxes on hedge fund managers. /s

He really doesn't want to do that. He wants to end the taxing of hedge fund manager pay at the capital gains tax rate and instead tax it as income. But he also wants to reduce the highest income tax rate to 15%...which is lower than the captial tax rate is.

156 posted on 08/31/2015 12:14:47 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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