According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the current tax rate on capital gains is projected to bring in about $1.24 trillion in federal receipts over 10 years. [CBO, 1/10/10]
So eliminating this tax could cost middle-class Americans up to $1.24 trillion over 10 years, while giving even more tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans. For example, the Joint Committee on Taxation indicated that for 2005, 88 percent of the benefit of lower rates for capital gains would go to individuals with incomes over $200,000. [CRS, 2007]
Reducing the top corporate tax rate to 25 percent. It's COST – MORE THAN $734.7 BILLION OVER 10 YEARS [Tax Policy Center, 9/15/08]
A flat tax could increase taxes on the middle class by thousands of dollars a year, while cutting taxes for the top 1 percent by more than $200,000. [Citizens for Tax Justice, 2/19/10]
The Cantor Plan would provide a permanent bailout for billionaires and millionaires (the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans). It's COST – $700 BILLION OVER 10 YEARS [Washington Post, 9/8/10]
Rightardia agress with Nancy Pelosi. The affluent got an 8 year holiday when bush was president. The tax cuts did little for the economy. The people who benefit from capital gains are most affluent Americans and flattening the tax tables would just increase the deficit. The problem with corporate tax is that too many businesses are exempt from it. A twenty five per cent tax rate might work if all corprortions paid the tax and the existing corporate exemptions were rescinded.
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