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Joe Biden's tax plan may wallop the stock market — here's one disturbing estimate
Yahoo ^ | July 9, 2020 | Brian Sozzi

Posted on 07/09/2020 2:20:06 PM PDT by lasereye

Details on how former vice president Joe Biden would rebuild the U.S. economy in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic if he were elected president in November hit the newswires on Thursday. And one thing was confirmed for many market watchers: A Biden presidency may not be so great for stock prices.

“Biden will ensure that corporate America finally pays their fair share in taxes, puts their workers and communities first rather than their shareholders, and respects their workers’ power and voice in the workplace,” a Biden campaign email memo wrote Thursday. Titled “Build Back Better,” the plan is in line with many traditional Democratic efforts around expanded social safety nets and infrastructure investments.

To help pay for it all, Biden is keen on reversing President’s Trump’s signature corporate taxes to businesses that prior to the pandemic, had helped send stock prices to record highs.

Investment bank Credit Suisse estimates this change in taxes would increase the effective rate by 4% to 5%, and slash $9 off estimated S&P 500 earnings per share. Goldman Sachs has projected that Biden’s tax plan would lead it to reduce its 2021 earnings estimate by 12%.

Theoretically, those estimate revisions would put marked pressure on stock prices.

“There’s a problem. It’s all after-tax. That’s unfortunate but at the end of the day, the money you put in your pocket is after-tax. You need to put more money in your pocket. It [the Biden plan] means that stocks — all things being equal — would be lower by 25% than they are today. It may not work that way. That is at least the theory,” explained SMH Group CEO George Ball on Yahoo Finance’s The First Trade.

“Certainly Biden’s tax plan is a headwind for the market,” said Momentum Advisors chief investment officer Allan Boomer.

(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; biden2020; bidentaxes; economy; stockmarket; trumpeconomy
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1 posted on 07/09/2020 2:20:06 PM PDT by lasereye
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To: lasereye

and 5 minutes later Joe has forgotten about his plan


2 posted on 07/09/2020 2:22:54 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: lasereye

Keep it up Joe. You need even more reasons to lose in a landslide.


3 posted on 07/09/2020 2:26:27 PM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives - ban gun free zones)
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To: butlerweave

He may forget, but his handlers, including his wife and the Vice President, will not.


4 posted on 07/09/2020 2:26:54 PM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: lasereye

Plugs keep your plan so I can keep my retirement.


5 posted on 07/09/2020 2:30:04 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: lasereye

Seriously, I wonder what the markets will do before the election.


6 posted on 07/09/2020 2:31:23 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: butlerweave

Yeah—we are supposed to believe that Biden has a plan for anything—the guy probably can’t find the nearest toilet...


7 posted on 07/09/2020 2:33:04 PM PDT by cgbg (Masters don't want slaves talking about masters and slaves.)
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To: lasereye

They act as of Biden knows about this plan, He can’t even remember his own Name


8 posted on 07/09/2020 2:34:14 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: mountainlion

The Biden plan for retirement for most people is simple - none.

A lifetime of work at a people’s collective farm or factory until you drop.


9 posted on 07/09/2020 2:36:32 PM PDT by wally_bert (Transmission tone, Selma.)
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To: eyeamok

Plugs’ s biggest decision each day is whether to have lime or orange jello.

That smirking bald black woman who runs Plugs’s campaign makes all the other decisions.


10 posted on 07/09/2020 2:37:12 PM PDT by RooRoobird20 (,)
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To: lasereye

“May”?


11 posted on 07/09/2020 2:38:19 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: lasereye

Sleepy Joe Biden is so senile and demented, he has no clue what’s in ‘his’ tax plan.


12 posted on 07/09/2020 2:46:29 PM PDT by sheehan (DEPORT ALL ILLEGALS.)
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To: lasereye

Any person, and there are many, who thinks that a “corporation” should put “workers and communities” first, ahead of shareholders does not understand capitalism. This is not the evil of capitalism, it is the ENGINE OF CAPITALISM! The risk of investing is balanced by the rewards of success and the return is usually much better than putting your money in a bank! Workers, especially union workers are persuaded by their leadership that “evil management is out to screw you!” Well, this is just a lie. The union leadership, who pay themselves huge salaries, have an interest in keeping those dolts paying dues. That is all, Folks.
If this is the Biden platform, he is a bigger loser than I thought.


13 posted on 07/09/2020 2:50:21 PM PDT by BatGuano (Ya don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do Ya? Nunc Bibendum)
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To: lasereye

If in the coming months the market tanks - it will signal a Biden win in November


14 posted on 07/09/2020 2:56:14 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: lasereye

As an establishment politician it’s most likely that Joe will do absolutely nothing if he’s elected.


15 posted on 07/09/2020 2:59:20 PM PDT by Spok (All free men are equal only in their freedom; everything else is up to them.)
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To: lasereye

Given that Yahoo is basically a mouthpiece for the DNC I guess this makes it official.

Joe Biden is outta there. A call is being made to the bullpen.


16 posted on 07/09/2020 3:05:21 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: The Antiyuppie; null and void

[Seriously, I wonder what the markets will do before the election.]

Oh, how about an “event” around September or so, that crashes the market? Convince the stupid public that it’s the fault of the President so that Joe Biden’s replacement can breeze to victory? /shiny side out!

In all seriousness, I put nothing past the coup plotters. Absolutely nothing.


17 posted on 07/09/2020 3:09:05 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: cgbg

[the guy probably can’t find the nearest toilet...]

Well, that depends. Really.


18 posted on 07/09/2020 3:10:04 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: lasereye

Joe getting a headstart on tanking the economy. I remember how he was in charge of the Obama recovery and how great it was for all Americans and I can’t wait for a repeat. /s


19 posted on 07/09/2020 3:12:44 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: lasereye; All
Has anybody found specifics about Biden’s so-called “Build Back Better” plan? Or is it merely an empty campaign slogan like Elizabeth Warren’s “I’ve got a plan for that.”

Consider that Biden’s idea of “fair share” for taxes completely sidesteps the major constitutional problem of unconstitutional federal taxes.

"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

Send "Orange Man Bad" federal and state government desperate Democrats and RINOs home in November!

Supporting PDJT with a new patriot Congress and state government leaders that will promise to fully support his already excellent work for MAGA and stopping SARS-CoV-2 will effectively give fast-working Trump a "third term" in office imo.


20 posted on 07/09/2020 3:14:34 PM PDT by Amendment10
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