a********l
发帖数: 39524 | 1 跪求版务不要封我。
http://news.yahoo.com/top-0-1-nation-earn-half-capital-gains-17
The Top 0.1% Of The Nation Earn Half Of All Capital Gains
By Robert Lenzner | Forbes
Capital gains are the key ingredient of income disparity in the US-- and the
force behind the winner takes all mantra of our economic system. If you
want even out earning power in the U.S, you have to raise the 15% capital
gains tax.
Income and wealth disparities become even more absurd if we look at the
top 0.1% of the nation's earners-- rather than the more common 1%. The top 0
.1%-- about 315,000 individuals out of 315 million-- are making about half
of all capital gains on the sale of shares or property after 1 year; and
these capital gains make up 60% of the income made by the Forbes 400.
It's crystal clear that the Bush tax reduction on capital gains and
dividend income in 2003 was the cutting edge policy that has created the
immense increase in net worth of corporate executives, Wall St.
professionals and other entrepreneurs.
The reduction in the tax from 20% to 15% continued the step-by-step
tradition of cutting this tax to create more wealth. It had first been
reduced from 35% in 1978 at a time of stock market and economic stagnation
to 28% . Again 1981, at the start of the Reagan era, it was reduced again
to 20%-- raised back to 28% in 1987, on the eve of the October 19 232% crash
in the market. In 1997 Clinton agreed to reduce it back to 20%, which move
was an inducement for the explosion of hedge funds and private equity firms-
- the most "rapidly rising cohort within the top 1 per cent."
Make no mistake; the battle that is to be fought over the coming attempt to
reverse this reduction in capital gains will be bloody and intense. The
facts are clear according to the Congressional Budget Office more than 80%
of the increase in income inequality was the result of an increase in the
share of household income from capital gains. In fact, you can go so far as
to claim that "Capital Gains income is the most unevenly distributed-- and
volatile-- source of household income," according to Laura D'Andrea Tyson,
University of California business professor and former chairwoman of the
Council of Economic Advisers under President Clinton.
No wonder the super wealthy plutocrats obtained the largest share of
national income-- 25% of the nation's wealth- greater than any other
industrial nation in the the period of 1979 to 2005. Make no mistake; after
unemployment-- this disparity between the 1%-- 3 million-- or the 0.1%--
the 300,000-- and the other 312 million citizens of the U.S. has become the
major theme of the Occupy Wall Street movement-- and an important national
debate.
I commend you to the late Justice Louis Brandeis warning to the nation that
" We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth
concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." We have to
make up our minds to restore a higher, fairer capital gains tax to the
wealthiest investor class-- or ultimately face increased social unrest. | g********r
发帖数: 8017 | | h******g
发帖数: 11250 | 3 原来股票的钱全被这些人捞去了
the
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【在 a********l 的大作中提到】
: 跪求版务不要封我。
: http://news.yahoo.com/top-0-1-nation-earn-half-capital-gains-17
: The Top 0.1% Of The Nation Earn Half Of All Capital Gains
: By Robert Lenzner | Forbes
: Capital gains are the key ingredient of income disparity in the US-- and the
: force behind the winner takes all mantra of our economic system. If you
: want even out earning power in the U.S, you have to raise the 15% capital
: gains tax.
: Income and wealth disparities become even more absurd if we look at the
: top 0.1% of the nation's earners-- rather than the more common 1%. The top 0
| J***o
发帖数: 553 | 4 发指啊。。my loss is your gain。。发包子吧 | a********l
发帖数: 39524 | 5 " We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth
concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
这是哪出？社会主义好？向左到底？ | G****1
发帖数: 6908 | | x****c
发帖数: 25662 | 7 我表示无压力
【在 G****1 的大作中提到】
: 这是GA板务，小黑屋伺候。。。:P
| p********e
发帖数: 16048 | 8 apo要在美国实现共产主义 同时实现财富平均和民主
【在 a********l 的大作中提到】
: " We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth
: concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
: 这是哪出？社会主义好？向左到底？
| t****g
发帖数: 35582 | 9 请你给我补上今年的capital loss.
【在 g********r 的大作中提到】
: 贪，跳，泰，发包子！
| t****g
发帖数: 35582 | 10 不过说一下，captial gain和dividend income确实是造成disparity的最大原因。
很简单，LT CG 和 qualified dividend目前都是15% flat tax.
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【在 a********l 的大作中提到】
: 跪求版务不要封我。
: http://news.yahoo.com/top-0-1-nation-earn-half-capital-gains-17
: The Top 0.1% Of The Nation Earn Half Of All Capital Gains
: By Robert Lenzner | Forbes
: Capital gains are the key ingredient of income disparity in the US-- and the
: force behind the winner takes all mantra of our economic system. If you
: want even out earning power in the U.S, you have to raise the 15% capital
: gains tax.
: Income and wealth disparities become even more absurd if we look at the
: top 0.1% of the nation's earners-- rather than the more common 1%. The top 0
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