TAX CUTS & THE MARKET: NONE
Tax cuts, whether corporate, personal or capital gains, have no discernible affect on stock prices; so, the USA Today analysis shows in the article below: […]
Month: October 2017
HOW TRUMP BENEFITS FROM HIS TAX PLAN, THEN LIES ABOUT IT.
As owner of numerous pass-through businesses, Trump would benefit from a rate lowered from 39.6% to 25%. The AMT cost Trump $31 million in 2005 […]
CARRIED INTEREST LOOPHOLE FOR HEDGE FUND MANAGERS….STILL THERE.
How’d you like to pay half? Carried Interest loophole allows private investment’s general partners to pay tax at the long-term capital gains rate of 20%, […]
A COMPETITIVE NATION AND NATION’S TAX RATE ARE NOT RELATED
America cannot achieve full employment, high productivity and broad income distribution by subsidizing a national race to the bottom. National “competitiveness” means full employment, high productivity […]
RAISING TAXES ON THE RICH BROUGHT ECONOMIC GROWTH, THEN W’S CUTS AND DISASTER
Strong economic growth helps bring down the deficit, bring down unemployment, correct the income slump. From Pappa Bush, through Clinton, then to W lowering taxes […]
NO RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CUTTING TOP RATES & ECONOMIC GROWTH – SEVENTY YEARS OF DATA
“…[T]he reduction in the top tax rates has had little association with saving, investment, or productivity growth. It is reasonable to assume that a tax […]
NO RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CUTTING TOP RATES & ECONOMIC GROWTH – TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS OF DATA
Growth in the workforce and growth in production drive economic growth. Tax breaks for corporations and the most wealthy do not cause the economy to […]
MOTIVATE STATES TO SOLVE PROBLEMS or CUT OUT INCENTIVES FOR STATES & LOCALS TO SOLVE PROBLEMS
Republicans “conservative principles” call for empowering “local” solutions, exercising “local” problem-solving and stimulating “local” innovation, the states as “laboratories” for policy experiments. To do this, Trump/Republicans […]
ALREADY CORPORATE CONTRIBUTIONS LOWEST SINCE 1944
Individuals & families have contributed between 40% and 50% of federal revenue since 1945. Corporations’ contributions have declined from 10% since 1945. Corporate contributions were […]
TRUMP/REPUBLICANS’ SEARCH FOR A WINNING SCORE
To tell whether a proposed budget will produce a deficit, each budget is “scored. To assure independence, one of two organizations do the scoring: The […]