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Politics : A Real American President: Donald Trump -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: FJB who wrote (271583)	3/31/2021 8:45:31 AM
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Who Raises Taxes During a Pandemic Already Creating Economic Turmoil? JoeBama, That’s Who March 30, 2021 \| Sundance \| 244 Comments Think about the logical insanity of this position for a moment…. According to the Biden administration the economy is in trouble, people are struggling, and congress needs to spend trillions to bail out state, local and federal governments along with sending income subsidies to all Americans as the economic crisis around COVID continues. Due to policies on energy, regulation and the COVID virus, simultaneously food prices are going higher, fuel prices are up 30 percent, overall energy prices are rising, transportation costs increasing and the inflationary impact on the middle-class is eating up their limited paychecks. AT THIS EXACT MOMENT the same administration is now proposing a tax increase. THINK ABOUT THE LACK OF LOGIC HERE. ( VIA AXIOS) […] The biggest-ticket item would raise the corporate rate from 21% to 28%. That’s worth $730 billion over 10 years, according to the Tax Policy Center. The other three would: Impose a global minimum tax on profits from foreign subsidiaries: $550 billion. Tax capital gains as regular income for the wealthy and tax unrealized capital gains at death: $370 billion. Return the top individual rate for those making more than $400,000 to the pre-Trump rate of 39.6%: $110 billion. (more…)