We're talking past each other. Let me put it in terms I actually
understand. We have had to pay capital gains taxes before, but the biggest amount was no doubt when my wife sold her business and business property. Now we knew what the rate was going in, we knew what we wanted to net, and we negotiated the deal accordingly so that we could net what we wanted after taxes, etc. If the tax were higher, it would have made no difference to us. We would have negotiated a different price or just not sold when we did.
Now of course we had our attorney and our accountant trying to persuade us on all sorts of deferral schemes, but in the end we just paid the taxes. We would have been giving them a big chunk of any potential savings anyway.
That's anecdotal of course. I'd have to see an analysis of real world impacts of making this change, but I'm skeptical it would have very much real impact at all to the average American. I also think it's bullshit to characterize "the left" that way, particularly when we know "the right" is going to go out of their way to ensure that tax policy benefits the wealthy first and foremost. All I'm saying.
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Posted: 08/10/2020 at 1:47PM