According to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, Joe Biden’s tax plan would raise taxes by $4 trillion over the coming decade, mostly paid by wealthier taxpayers.
That is a startling high figure. Even higher than what taxes would have increased under Hillary Clinton’s tax plan, when she was running in 2016. The same group, projected that Hillary Clinton’s 2016 tax proposal would have increased taxes by $1.4 trillion over a decade.
Their current analysis shows that the former vice president’s tax agenda is well to the left even of past Democratic presidential campaigns.
Under Biden’s plan, “the highest-income households would see substantially larger tax increases than households in other income groups, both in dollar amounts and as a share of their incomes,” the Center’s report concluded. It finds that the top 1% of taxpayers would pay about three-quarters of the tax increase, in the first year it was phased in. Yet taxpayers at all income levels would see tax hikes, mostly because of Biden’s plan to raise the corporate income tax rate, a change the group assumes would partly be shouldered by workers.
The former vice president’s plan would roll back the tax cuts that President Trump signed into law in December 2017 for individuals earning more than $400,000. It would also tax capital gains at the higher ordinary income tax rates for individuals earning at least $1 million. Under current law, capital gains are at 20% for high-income earners, while tax rates on ordinary income go as high as 37%.
Biden’s plan also seeks to eliminate a feature of the tax code that prevents heirs from being taxed on the increase in assets that occurred during the decedent’s life. Democrats have described that wrinkle, known as the “step up in basis,” as a loophole for wealthy families.
In addition, the plan would increase the top corporate income tax rate from 21% to 28%, reversing some but not all of the reduction in the 2017 GOP tax overhaul. Before that legislation, the rate had been 35%, the highest among developed nations.
Nothing positive:just a knocking piece. Get a life!
Joe Biden is an idiot that must never be president. he is slowly losing his mind and has nothing to offer this country. besides being a pervert he would be the most corrupt president we ever have had.
Kill incentives to work and then much of the economy will go underground to avoid taxes.
JOE BIDEN IS AN IDIOT. I SURE HOPE HE DOES NOT GET ELECTED. MAY GOD HELP US, WE WILL BE RIGHT BACK WHERE WE WERE WITH THE LAST PRESIDENT WAS AND DID TRY TO DESTROY AMERICAN. I BELIEVE DONALD TRUMP, IS ONE OF OUR BEST PRESIDENT. HE CARES FOR AMERICAN. THE DEMOCRATS HAS DONALD TRUMP SEEMS TO REALLY CARE ABOUT THIS COUNTRY. BIDEN AND TH E OTHERS OF THE DEEP SWAMP HAS DONE NOTHING TO HELP AND IS TRYING TO TAKE THIS COUNTRY. JUST LOOK WHAT HIS SON DONE. OH YES I HAVE NONE LOVE FOR HILDA CLINTON, SHE IS A SNAKE IN THE GRASS, BE CAREFUL THAT SHE DOES NOT BITE YOU. HOW SHE HAS GOTTEN AWAY WITH SO MUCH. WHY IS THERE SUCH A DOUBLE STANDARD WITH THESE MONKEYS IN CONGRESS. I COULD GO ON AND ON.BUT I DON’T HAVE THAT MUCH TIME