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Bill Gates calls for higher capital gains taxes
CNBC ^ | 02 MAY 16 | Robert Frank | @robtfrank

Posted on 05/02/2016 8:29:17 AM PDT by DCBryan1

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To: Toddsterpatriot

D’oh!
Rich liberals who live off tax sheltered income never thought of that!


61 posted on 05/02/2016 11:22:37 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: DCBryan1

Bill Gates should mind his own business and stop trying to destroy others.

He can absorb a several billion dollar loss.

Most of us can’t!

He begs the question:

“If you’re so rich, how come you’re no smart”


62 posted on 05/02/2016 11:29:33 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are those committed by illegal aliens)
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To: DCBryan1
That's right Gates, increase taxes on the middle class who play by the rules, work, save and invest in mutual funds for their future and retirement.

FU Bill, the average, everyday Joe, investor gets raped enough as it is.

63 posted on 05/02/2016 11:44:24 AM PDT by The Cajun
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To: JEDI4S
He and Trump seem to agree on raising taxes on the wealthy though.

So, I wonder if capital gains increases are part of Trumps plans too?

Makes you wonder.

Jedi.

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The problem is people don't make a difference between business taxes and individual taxes.

Business should never pay a tax, period. Business don't pay taxes, their customers do. If a business has no capital gains tax then they can invest and sell what is best for the business. It is hard to justify a purchase if you realize that if it doesn't work out you will have to give 39 percent of it to the government when you sell it off.

People who live off the money their ancestors made and only get taxed at 20% are the ones who should be paying the same as every one else. Income, regardless of where it is from should be taxed the same way. Why is interest income worth less than labor income? I do however think that there could fairly be some means to have an inflation factor calculated in the investment income so that you don't really get back less than you put in.

64 posted on 05/02/2016 11:47:25 AM PDT by JAKraig (my religion is at least as good as yours)
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To: DCBryan1

“An opportunity to be a little more progressive “?

Assh***...


65 posted on 05/02/2016 12:40:49 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: MadIsh32

What bull****. Cheap to free money causes asset bubbles.

I for one am incensed by this, if the government doesn’t have skin in the game on the risk side they should get jack on the upside of an investment of money already taxed...

Not to mention the idea that anyone who argues the government should be given MORE money when they can’t manage what they’re already in control of must have encephalopathy.


66 posted on 05/02/2016 12:48:58 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: kingu

Oh, but dude, he’s like instrumental in ridding Africa of Guinea Worm and that’s like paying 90% taxes, or zillions of dollars dontcha know?


67 posted on 05/02/2016 12:51:18 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: Fran B

I’m pretty sure people like Gates & Buffet are simply seeking to kick out the ladder from everyone else who might try to make their own fortune. So they and their families can exist as dynastic elites in perpetuity.


68 posted on 05/02/2016 2:29:52 PM PDT by Utmost Certainty (Our Enemy, the State)
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Occupy the Refrigerator (I am the 2%)
69 posted on 05/02/2016 2:31:03 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
That'll make a big dent in the deficit, particularly considering how many of the very rich use a buy-and-hold strategy. Wait, what?

70 posted on 05/02/2016 2:31:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: DCBryan1

The eugenics genius has spoken! Get bit Billy, you lyin’ piece of cr**.


71 posted on 05/02/2016 2:36:27 PM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44 (Cruz - the Charlie Sheen of politics - 'winning')
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To: MadIsh32
"Maybe because I am in the tech industry, but my experience is far different from yours. Entrepreneurs are worshiped rock stars, in particular amongst the young. Musk, Zuckerberg, Jobs, Sean Parker. Admired stars, not vilified."

Wow, all of them neatly neurotics or outright psychopaths. You rock on, Radish!

72 posted on 05/02/2016 6:15:04 PM PDT by StAnDeliver ("Too bad your overhauled unicorn start-up failed, Ted.")
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To: MadIsh32
"I give NC 1 month before the law is either repealed or changed. McCrory and the legislature will not risk making this many employers angry." - MadIsh32, 3/25/16

Give me your Derby pick so I can bet against it with both hands. Or better yet, just f*****g get lost.

73 posted on 05/02/2016 6:52:11 PM PDT by StAnDeliver ("Too bad your overhauled unicorn start-up failed, Ted.")
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To: StAnDeliver

Classy


74 posted on 05/02/2016 8:08:52 PM PDT by MadIsh32 (In order to be pro-market, sometimes you must be anti-big business)
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To: DCBryan1; Man50D; Principled; EternalVigilance; phil_will1; kevkrom; Bigun; PeteB570; FBD; ...

BAD IDEA, BILL! BAD IDEA!

FAIRTAX, BILL! FAIRTAX! BECOME AN ADVOCATE FOR THE FAIRTAX!

Taxing ANYTHING other than consumption is economically unsound!

For more information about the FairTax and to find out how to help us replace the income tax with the FairTax and abolish the IRS, go to https://www.fairtax.org.


75 posted on 05/03/2016 7:18:13 AM PDT by Taxman ((H. L. Mencken correctly observed: Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.))
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To: DCBryan1

“Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on. All these plans as a whole — with their common aim of legal plunder — constitute socialism.”

— Frederic Bastiat, the Law, 1850


76 posted on 05/03/2016 9:07:27 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
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