Bernie Sanders’ tax plan would impose annual tax rates of well over 100% on the richest 400 Americans, according to his economic advisers, mostly through his new wealth tax.
The idea that the federal government should take more from the very wealthy than they earn in a year is a policy innovation, one the Democratic candidate has advanced as part of a sweeping anti-inequality platform. Critics, however, argue that it's unrealistic and would harm the economy by reversing billionaires' incentives to innovate and invest.
Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, the Berkeley economists who've advised Sanders on his wealth tax plan and the authors of a new book on inequality, calculate on their website that Sanders' tax proposals would result in a 97.5% tax rate for the richest 400 Americans, who have pre-tax incomes above $456.5 million — and that rate would rise above 100%, depending on how the specifics of Sanders' plan were spelled out. Today, in contrast, the tax rate for the same group is 23.1%, they estimate.
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Not one single Democratic Candidate has separated themselves from the pack.You would think at least one would vow to continue the Trump initiatives but they won't.Are they that terrified of Nancy Pelosi?
In his society you own squat...unless
Still waiting for Bernie to divest himself of his two extra houses and to voluntarily pay more than he owes. But not holding my breath.
Bernie isn't bright enough to see his heart attack as a genuine warning sign.
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