A healthy amount of funding serves to get the message out there, and so it can be important, but people have to buy the message, selecting from all the other messages out there, many of which also receive extensive funding and some of which are directly contradictory.
I think you can figure out who benefits from 15% cap gains rates.
Everyone, or at least just about everyone, if you include indirect benefits.
Also 15% capital gains tax rates leave the rich paying more (as a percentage of their income, not just in dollar terms) then the non-rich. At least up to the richest 10,000 or so, and probably well beyond that. Its possible the richest few dozen to a hundred or so pay a lower rate, but I haven't seen any evidence to support that claim, and even if its true that's too few people to for the basis of tax policy changes, esp. since such changes would directly effect a very large multiple of that number, and indirectly effect the whole economy. |
