Posted on 08/11/2012 4:38:44 PM PDT by moonshot925
Under Paul Ryan's plan, Mitt Romney wouldn't pay any taxes for the next ten years -- or any of the years after that. Now, do I know that that's true. Yes, I'm certain.
Well, maybe not quite nothing. In 2010 -- the only year we have seen a full return from him -- Romney would have paid an effective tax rate of around 0.82 percent under the Ryan plan, rather than the 13.9 percent he actually did. How would someone with more than $21 million in taxable income pay so little? Well, the vast majority of Romney's income came from capital gains, interest, and dividends. And Ryan wants to eliminate all taxes on capital gains, interest and dividends.
Almost. Romney did earn $593,996 in author and speaking fees in 2010 that still would be taxed under the Ryan plan. Just not much. Ryan would cut the top marginal tax rate from 35 to 25 percent and get rid of the Alternative Minimum Tax -- saving Romney another $292,389 or so on his 2010 tax bill. Now, Romney would still owe self-employment taxes on his author and speaking fees, but that only amounts to $29,151. Add it all up, and Romney would have paid $177,650 out of a taxable income of $21,661,344, for a cool effective rate of 0.82 percent.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
The capital gains tax punishes those who chose to save and invest.
Eliminating the capital gains tax would lead to a faster growing economy, more saving, more investment, more entrepreneurship and more job creation.
Good.
Money invested has already been taxed prior as income tax. It is taking a risk to help an investment grow. Removing capital gains would be a great benefit.
Yes....Romney is a selfish man....the government deserves more so they can pass it to the union folks?? The pharmacy folks...the kill the babies folks...the gay folks???
And in the meantime we get nothing for our money....someone else gets our money.
I’m willing to bet the author of this piece would really like some cheese (probably French) to go with his whine. I was going to call him a loser but I will settle for just pathetic.
Jealousy and envy will be the death of liberals in this life and the next.
Good.
Corporate income is already taxed at 35% a the corporate level. Taxing capital gains (and dividends for that matter) is simply double taxation and should be eliminated.
In case you are wondering, the same is not true of regular wages. Wages are considered a cost to corporations. Costs are subtracted from revenues to calculate profits and it is profits that get taxed. So wages are already only taxed once.
I’d almost wager some blogs to FR get more hits than TA gets in paid circulation.
Romney, like all stockholders, pays taxes on corporate income through the corporation. In the present situation taxes on corporate income are paid twice, once when the corporation declares a profit, then a second time when the individual stockholders take that profit home as a dividend. Tax it once, either as corporate income or a dividend, not both.
Good.
Next.... I don’t give a damn what Romney pays in taxes, I care about what I am forced to pay.
How much does the AnointedIdiot, PelosiIdiot, etc pay under his plan?
Cool...under my tax plan he’d pay 0%.
“Selfish” is the driving force behind the whole Ayn Rand view of economics. Apparent “selfish” behavior is what concentrates wealth in the first place, but wealth is never accumulated merely for the sake of keeping score. The real game is to involve and to engage as much of the productive capabilities out there as may be done with the tools at hand, and wealth is only one of the tools. The others are intelligent application of the resources at hand, and building the base so that it has as wide as possible access to this capability. That involves a dedicated and trained work force, freedom from messy and frankly restrictive regulations meant only to create artificial scarcities and trade in imaginary benefits, and an end to entitlements and privilege based on political favor.
Except for the money necessary for defense of the country and a few other constitutional responsibilities, I begrudge the federal government every penny they extort from taxpayers.
The more money they extort, the more they pervert the constitution, the more they bloat themselves and everything they touch, and the more they push us into socialism.
Jobs created by the public sector from tax revenue are unsustainable, meaning they actually reduce GDP.
For every public-sector job created, three private-sector jobs are destroyed.
Plus, a confiscatory graduated income tax is plank number x of the Communist Manifesto.
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So Romney, as president, would sign it? LOL yeah, right.
Since taxation is viewed by the lazy thieving liberals as the answer to our domestic security, why is it NOT one of them will produce their own tax records so we can see how generous they are?
Not that it matters to Atlantic readers, who are so intellectually curious and Progressive, but the plan quoted is not the current plan.
Either way, I am sure the typical Atlantic reader wants anyone that saves and invests to be taxed into oblivion because the government needs the money more than the people that earn it.
Envy makes people ugly and takes years from their life.
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