Guest Post by Martin Armstrong
Success is a punishable offense in Biden’s America. Joe Biden and his administration would like to implement a 44.6% tax on capital gains, the highest tax on capital gains in the nation’s history. Washinton says this tax is necessary to address the looming national debt, but they are simultaneously implementing measures to ensure that the nation falls deeper into debt. Perpetually issuing new debt to pay for the old is equivalent to a Ponzi scheme that WILL FAIL.
Donald Trump’s implemented tax deductions are set to expire in 2025, which is precisely when these measures could go into effect. The proposals essentially rob those who have achieved success to pay those who leech off of the government.
The proposal is over 250 pages in length but looks to target all investments. The MSM will report that they are only going after the wealthiest Americans but the truth of the matter is that they will seek to squeeze everything they can out of every American, unless they fully rely on government assistance and are therefore owned by Washington.
“A new 25- percent minimum income tax would be imposed on extremely wealthy taxpayers. For high-income taxpayers, gaps in the law that allow some pass-through business owners to avoid Medicare taxes would be eliminated, and Medicare tax rates would be increased. Additional loopholes, including the carried interest preference and the like-kind exchange real estate preference, would be eliminated for those with the highest incomes. Together these reforms would sharply curtail tax preferences that allow the wealthy to pay lower tax rates on their investment income and exacerbate income and wealth disparities, including by gender, geography, race, and ethnicity.”
We are equal in rights, not talent. This proposal clearly states that successful individuals must be punished financially. Will the government curtail its own spending or address the utter deterioration of fiscal policy that has hurt all Americans? No. There are no mirrors in Washington.
C corporations, under this proposal, would be subjected to a 28% tax rate – a 7% increase. The corporate alternative minimum tax (CAMT) would rise to 21% compared to the current 15%. How on Earth does this support American business? Does he truly believe this will aid in job growth, as we have primarily only seen the public sector grow?
Think crypto is safe? Think again because this proposal wants to permit the government to determine which assets are considered actively traded.
“The proposal would add a third category of assets that may be marked-to-market at the election of a dealer or trader in those assets. Assets in the third category would be actively traded digital assets and derivatives on, or hedges of, those digital assets, under rules similar to those that apply 230 General Explanations of the Administration’s Fiscal Year 2025 Revenue Proposals to actively traded commodities. The Secretary would have authority to determine which digital assets are treated as actively traded. The determination of whether a digital asset is actively traded would take into account relevant facts and circumstances, which may include whether the asset is regularly bought and sold for U.S. dollars or other fiat currencies, the volume of trading of the asset on exchanges that have reliable valuations, and the availability of reliable price quotations.”
Forget offshore digital investments because Washington wants a cut of that too:
“Tax compliance and enforcement with respect to digital assets is a rapidly growing problem. Since the industry is entirely digital, taxpayers can transact with offshore digital asset exchanges and wallet providers without leaving the United States. The global nature of the digital asset market offers opportunities for U.S. taxpayers to conceal assets and taxable income by using offshore digital asset exchanges and wallet providers. U.S. taxpayers also attempt to avoid U.S. tax reporting by creating entities through which they can act. Requiring individuals specifically 228 General Explanations of the Administration’s Fiscal Year 2025 Revenue Proposals to report their offshore holdings of accounts with digital assets, subject to significant penalties if they fail to do so, is critical to combat the potential for digital assets to be used for tax avoidance.”
This proposal is LOADED with extreme restrictions and penalties for investors, both domestic and foreign.
They want to reform how companies pay dividends. They want to reform international taxation and reporting. The statute of limitation for financial penalties would be expanded, including the payouts the government lavishly handed out during COVID.
The proposal would increase the top marginal tax rate to 39.6% for married individuals filing a joint return and surviving spouses. Single filers earning $400,000 for unmarried individuals will face the highest tax penalties, as will those earning $425,000 for head of household filers, and $225,000 for married individuals filing a separate return. In comparison, the current top marginal rate for married filers is currently on those earning over $731,2000 and single filers earning over $609,500. So the cost of living is rapidly rising, inflation has no change of relenting during this time of ongoing wars, but the government wants to tax those earning less more?
So, if one sells their small business, they will need to give the government about half of what they worked their entire lives to achieve. If an American’s house rose in value and they attempt to sell the estate—too bad, Uncle Sam needs half. This is a MIDDLE-CLASS TAX. The ultra-wealthy already have ways to bypass these measures. The ultra-wealthy may begin leaving America in general if they continue to demonize capitalism.
The people did not create the deficit we face today. The government continually spends with no plans to curtail spending. They have created a massive Ponzi scheme whereby they issue new debt every year to roll over the debt from the previous year. Eventually, there will be no buyers, and that is precisely how nations fail.
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