Rogue wrote: 2seaoat wrote:Yes it is......and what exactly is the tax on a dividend? The money a corporation gives out as dividends is after tax dollars......and kabooom! it gets taxed again......your measurement of what gets taxed has nothing to do with what the alternative will become. When wealthy people have so little economic patriotism to this nation or its citizens.....they do not want to pay taxes at all......then leave this country. Go to the Caymans or Bermuda and live a life of wealth and ease, but our tax code represents a set of priorities. When a fireman and his family, or an insurance broker and his family is making 75k a year.....how many folks are going to leave them an estate over 4 or 5 million......how many of those same folks have the extra cash to invest in stocks and receive dividends with after tax dollars.....not too many.
However, Mitt Romney gets up and says that he will balance the budget by creating his cafeteria plan with a cap on deductions.....nope....will not close the 10 trillion dollar gap....not the 7 trillion dollar Obama was talking about, because they were just talking about the 20% cut.....nope this country has worked just fine when the capital gains were 28%, and people actually rather than paying dividends would grow the company and create jobs. The tax code is the ethics code of a nation......and those who think because dividends and the estate tax are a so called double taxation.....sorry....this nation boomed when it was almost double the capital gains, and the exemption was 50 times smaller than today. It will boom again when the selfish people who have betrayed this nation are held accountable. We will have balanced budgets, and we will have real GDP growth....and real fiscal republicans will not longer listen to this crap that taxes should be zero and American citizens are takers.....the only takers in the last 30 years have been the very poor and the very wealthy.....and both are fair game for reform.
Welcome back Stormy......we just pick up where we left off.
I sincerely do not think you can atribute the capital gains tax to having anything to do with the country booming during that time. Its a relativly little amount of collections in the whole scheme of things. I read on one of the links I gave you recently that said there are only 3600 people with more than 5 million dollars in the country.
seems to me that the best way for economic growth is to have the majority of people working, paying taxes at a lower rate, not have all this inflation to where the working people end up spending all there money just to put food on the table but some left over to buy cars, boats and other items that boost bussinesses. Not people on food stamps which is a drain on the system.
Right now we have a terrible inbalance of takers and producers and the left likes it that way because those are thier "majority base".
The most important thing for this country right now is to get people back to work and off the gov teet. And IMHO its not more regulation which stagnates buss growth or more taxes which stagnates buss growth. You know this too well. You know very well that you wouldnt hire another person if you had to write a big fat check at the end of the year to the gov, or quarterly which ever it is that you do.
bussinesses have been scared from day one of obama, with reason too. obama is anti-bussiness. They know it and we are all suffering from it.
You can not legislate economic patriotism.
You cant take from producers and give it to takers.
You cant pick winners and losers at the gov level
You can instill class warfare as we have now.
economic patriotism is in fact fairness for all, even those who have made better for themsleves from the same oppertunities that have been provided to every single individual in this country. The chance to do well. And punishing those who do well will produce a society that looses its drive to do well, the ending result a country full of takers, with a few extremly rich at the top dooling out the crumbs to the peasant masses. And the odds are those doing the dooling and having the most wealth will be in our Gov. And dont tell me this senario cant happen. It has.