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Biden Does not Understand Taxes: Even if Trump is reelected and undoes the damage inflicted by Biden, don't expect the economy to recover overnight
American Thinker ^ | 04/30/2024 | Warren Beatty

Posted on 04/30/2024 9:31:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Biden is again on a tax-raising rampage. He proposes to increase income taxes by nearly $5 trillion for corporations. Increasing the corporate income tax rate to 28% (from 21%) will be a great driver of negative effects on the U.S. economy, reducing long-run GDP by 0.9%, the capital stock by 1.7%, wages by 0.8%, and full-time jobs by 192,000. Additionally, Biden's new tax proposals include increasing the recently enacted corporate alternative minimum tax rate from 15% to 21% and denying business deductions for employee compensation above $1 million.

Biden proposes an increase of the corporate income tax that's a higher tax rate than in communist China, France, and the U.K., each at 25%. Add to that rate the average state corporate income tax of 4% and the average combined rate will be 32%, the second-highest corporate income tax rate (just below Colombia) in the developed world.

As the late, great Paul Harvey used to say, "Corporations don't pay taxes." Households bear the burden of corporate income tax increases in the form of higher prices and/or slower wage growth.

Biden repeatedly said he wouldn't raise taxes on anyone earning less than $400,000, but has now proposed to raise taxes on almost everyone. He says he's going to let Trump's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) expire, which will be a massive middle-class income tax hike because it was a massive middle-class tax cut. Wealthy people saw their taxes reduced, but the TJIA actually transferred a larger portion of the tax burden onto the wealthy.

His most insidious tax increase has to be his 44.6% 'national wealth tax.' One of the most significant aspects of this proposed tax will be its impact on capital gains (and all gains) which will be subject to a federal tax rate of 44.6%.


(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; bidendestroyseconomy; bidenomics; economy; fjb; taxes
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1 posted on 04/30/2024 9:31:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Bottom line: in the late 1970’s Jimmy Carter wrecked the economy so badly it took two years of Reagan’s tax policies before the economy responded.

Similarly, even if Trump gets reelected and undoes the damage inflicted by Biden, don’t expect the economy to recover overnight.


2 posted on 04/30/2024 9:33:11 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

bflr.


3 posted on 04/30/2024 9:35:12 AM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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To: SeekAndFind

Biden hasnt enacted any taxes, just spending. But the current tax rates will expire soon, so no action will result in higher rates.


4 posted on 04/30/2024 9:38:48 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: SeekAndFind

1) Replace all the policies Bidumb removed.

2) stop giving foreign aid money away to any country that sent ‘migrants’

3) stop giving foreign aid money away, period.

4) top to bottom audit

5) mandatory 20 years jail for ANY government fraud, including vote fraud.
5a) one year amnesty for anyone who turns in or self-reports fraud.

6) end ‘spend it or lose it’ budget policy.
6a) offer 10% bonus for any department that cuts spending.

6b) Implement penny-plan. every department budget cut 1% per year until budget is lanaced.


5 posted on 04/30/2024 9:40:30 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bull, anything is better than this


6 posted on 04/30/2024 9:41:55 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: SeekAndFind

He seems to understand every action he takes further destroys this Republic.


7 posted on 04/30/2024 9:42:11 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m presuming the author of this piece is not the famous actor, Warren Beatty, but I have no idea. Anyone?


8 posted on 04/30/2024 9:43:55 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: SeekAndFind
Trump wants to rescind the INCOME TAX. There is a way to do away with all State and Federal Taxes, that exist. Gas Tax, Sales Tax, Real Estate Taxes, Income.

The problem is it is hard for people to understand.

.003 Charged to every money transfer. Retail, ATM, Wires, Stock Trades, anytime money moves. And no it is not the "Fair Tax" which is an increased universal sales tax, and it is not a VAT Tax.

It is called the APT Tax.

It's a tiny charge to individuals, but corporations and banks would pay something, where as now they pay little or NOTHING.

9 posted on 04/30/2024 9:46:56 AM PDT by agincourt1415 (Trump!)
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To: SeekAndFind

The real damage done is businesses will know they will never be more than four years away from Dem ruin, and often less than that.

So any long term capital projects will be impossible, along with many types of longer term planning.


10 posted on 04/30/2024 9:47:05 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Should he get elected Trump will face intense resistance from the Deep State, and even from within his own party. Don’t believe Reagan had that problem.

Not sure how much constructive remediation Trump will be able to accomplish as he will only have about three years to try to get stuff done.

The damage Biden has unleashed on this country is deep and long lasting. Elections have consequences as they say.


11 posted on 04/30/2024 9:50:03 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s 1980 all over again.
The only difference is that President Trump only has 1 term. This is why his VP pick is vitally important.


12 posted on 04/30/2024 9:53:23 AM PDT by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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Bill C used Reagan’s accomplishments as his. It will take years to undo the damage.


13 posted on 04/30/2024 9:55:07 AM PDT by ssfromla (R)
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To: Magnum44

“But the current tax rates will expire soon, so no action will result in higher rates.”

************

Just the way the congress likes it.


14 posted on 04/30/2024 9:55:20 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Mr. K

That can be Presidential order #2.
#1 should be to suspend every presidential order issued prior.
Start all over.
That will keep the communists tied up in court for at least 4 years....


15 posted on 04/30/2024 9:56:46 AM PDT by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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To: Starboard

Yep, its planned. If they made tax reductions permanent, what else would they have to run on?


16 posted on 04/30/2024 9:57:08 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Magnum44

If congress really cared we wouldn’t have such massively dangerous debt, which by the way will be heaped upon future generations. You would think that maybe they would revolt against this unpayable burden but they don’t. And no one in congress intends to acknowledge the problem. All that matters to them is buying votes and kicking the can down the road.


17 posted on 04/30/2024 10:06:41 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: SeekAndFind
..."don't expect the economy to recover overnight"

That's the plan and it's right on schedule.
18 posted on 04/30/2024 10:15:48 AM PDT by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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To: FamiliarFace

I noticed that as well. It can’t be.


19 posted on 04/30/2024 10:16:03 AM PDT by gattaca (Once a nation loses control of its borders, it is no longer a nation...Ronald Reagan)
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To: Magnum44

“But the current tax rates will expire soon, so no action will result in higher rates.”

But that action has already been put into focus and preparation after the election for the 2025 budget.

President Biden’s State of the Union address presented a vision of higher taxes for American businesses and high earners combined with carveouts, credits, and more complex rules for taxpayers at all income levels. Soon after, the president released his FY 2025 budget outlining how the White House would implement the president’s tax vision, indicating a gross tax hike of about $5.3 trillion from 2024 to 2034.

On a gross basis, we estimate Biden’s FY 2025 budget would increase taxes by about $4.4 trillion over that period. After taking various credits into account, the increase would be about $3.4 trillion. The tax increases would substantially increase marginal tax rates on investment, saving, and work, reducing economic output by 2.2 percent in the long run, wages by 1.6 percent, and employment by 788,000 full-time equivalent jobs.

https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/federal/biden-budget-2025-tax-proposals/

And depending on how far the liberals could lie about such things as wage increase to catch up with the inflation they created will probably push those numbers higher in economic output, wages and falling employment numbers. The rich and major companies, have commitments they have to cover and there are only two ways to do it, raise prices to boost income, which lowers intake, or cut employment to eliminate costs as HR is normally the highest.

wy69


20 posted on 04/30/2024 10:22:43 AM PDT by whitney69 (yption tunnels)
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