Tax Policy Assignment – Alejandro Perez
The article “Increase Taxes? Talk by Donald Trump Alarms G.O.P.” by Alan Rappeport from August 31, 2015 in the NY Times raises many interesting points that have been heard from the Republican presidential candidate front-runner Donald Trump. Trump has been known to change his stances on tax policy from one interview to the next, such as in an interview with Fox News when he was in support of a flat tax added to America’s tax system, then soon after saying it would be unfair due to the rich paying the same as the poor (Rappeport, “Increase Taxes? Talk by Donald Trump Alarms G.O.P.”). This article, however, clearly states how Trump strongly feels that we need to increase taxes on hedge fund companies and
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His eventual stance of a graduation with the tax would be a good idea. Though we have a progressive tax policy currently in which people are taxed more based on how much they make, this seems to be untrue for the very top of the one percent of wealthy people. After a certain amount of wealth, tax rates seem to go down again which should not be the case given that they have the wealth to pay for them. The other policy that I agree with Trump on are getting large corporations headquarters back in the U.S., though his ideas of giving them tax breaks to bring them back seems counterintuitive. Bringing the headquarters back to the U.S. would increase tax revenue for the government and bring more jobs for U.S. citizens. Trump’s tax on hedge funds as ordinary income would also be a large increase in tax revenue for the government, but as Les Funtleyder, a portfolio manager at E Squared Asset Management, says in the article, “If his positions on raising taxes on their businesses [hedge funds] gain traction, some members of the financial industry will probably form a political action committee…” (Rappeport, “Increase Taxes? Talk by Donald Trump Alarms G.O.P.”). There is still plenty of time for Donald Trump’s tax policy ideas to take hold, and as G.O.P. front-runner, there is a very good chance of it once he adds
On CNN news, Democratic senator Bernie Sanders and Republican senator Ted Cruz debated about the GOP tax plan debate. The GOP tax plan proposed to lower corporate tax rates and decrease federal income tax brackets. Senator Cruz argued that by lowering corporate tax rates, there will be more jobs and revenue because of the trickle down effect. Senator Sanders argues that this tax plan will only benefit one-tenth of the one percent.
One of his great plans involve tax. His plan would require every American to pay tax. There would be three tax brackets and whichever bracket you fall into depends on your yearly earnings. While it may seem like a lot for everyone to pay tax, if every American chips in, then we could start to reduce our nation’s debt significantly. During his term, Obama has almost doubled the national debt. With this plan, the debt
Donald Trump wants to lower taxes which is great, but there are many setbacks to this. If he does lower taxes it will be harder for the government to have
BBC: For the longest, Republicans have said the U.S. tax system is in need of repairing and Trump is the one taking the stand on it. He’s called for significant tax cuts which
Trump is focusing on cutting taxes for everyone, reducing the number of tax brackets from seven to three, and higher the taxes on the wealthy - 4% tax increase on those who earn more than 5 million dollars. He would reduce the top rate of tax to 33% from 39.6% ("Where Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Stand").
Donald Trump has finally released his tax plan. Hallelujah. His plan is filled with what many conservatives and liberals have been eagerly calling for. In part of his plan, he pushes for a flat income tax for all businesses at 15% and a repatriation rate at 10% claiming this will incentive companies to increase their presence in the US. He still relies on a graduated tax rate of 0%, 10%, 20%, and 25%, which is far more attractive to voters then the current rate of 10%, 15%, 25%, 28%, 33%, 35%, and 39.6%. This greatly appeals to lower income individuals because the widely held belief is that everyone is taxed and this belief will be to Trump’s advantage. His attacks on Wall Street and their profits and high salaries appeals to many Americans due to lackluster job growth and wage
Ryu strongly believes that lowering taxes will not help create jobs any quicker. Tax reform is a remarkably challenging dilemma to solve and continues to be a sensitive subject. Peoples money, peoples vote, Ryu urges voters to be informed on what they are voting for and have knowledge of the present and future repercussions of Trump's tax reform. Ryu explained his own and business parentes experience show voters that tax-cuts will not create jobs. While Moore would use her own corporation to make her argument more logical. Moore continues to drive the idea to keep America earnings and the economy in the United States, supporting Trump's tax reform jolting the economy. Moore also propose that tax cuts will encourage people to invest in American
Finally, he would like to keep companies from shifting business overseas to escape American taxes. His other goal would involve raising taxes on the rich, but not the middle class.
That said, Trump’s tax plan as originally drafted, would have handed hedge fund and private equity general partners a net windfall by reducing their overall tax rate to 15 percent, well below the current capital gains rate paid on carried interest. Trump has recently made revisions which deny pass-through entities (like hedge funds and private equity firms) the ability to qualify for the proposed 15 percent business rate. Moreover, Trump remains committed to taxing carried interest as ordinary income.
Seth Klarman is a republican billionaire hedge-fund manager who, generally, doesn’t share a lot about his personal beliefs to the public. So it was very shocking when he designated his Baupost Group (the hedge-fund group that he manages) letter to the topic of the president, who he called a mad man, back in February of 2017. In the letter, he criticized investors who have faith in Trump’s promise to bring tax cuts. Klarman said that investors who are hypnotized by Trump’s bold statements will be upset and disappointed when little to no change occurs. He also said that if Trump did deliver on lower tax rates, Americans should not rely on ‘voodoo economics’ to take care
As said on npr.org by Danielle Kurtzleben “Donald Trump’s tax plan is indeed a large tax cut, but those cuts would largely benefit the highest earners. According to a recent analysis from the right-leaning Tax Foundation, the top 1 percent could see their after-tax incomes increase by up to 16 percent. Meanwhile, the bottom four quintiles would see their incomes grow by 1.9 percent or less.” Donald Trump is focused on making the rich richer and the middle class less fortunate than they already
Donald Trump’s policies on taxes are geared towards helping the economy recovering and the establishment of more jobs. Trump wishes to cut down the income so it no longer negatively effects the middle
Donald Trump’s plan focal point is on cutting taxes and how that will result in many benefits towards the economy. “The president-elect has said he can get the economy to grow nearly
When given the option to merge three municipalities, people, living within these towns, would seem hesitant to choose to support the merging because of a lack of support showing that this a good thing. The lack of research done on the effects of merging of three towns, shows that nobody really know what will happen if the consolidation was passed. The three towns of Round Lake Beach, and Round Lake Park would merge into one Round Lake area, as well as, all the business and public services that each town offers would merge into one. The people in support of this merger suggest that merging these three town will save the townspeople money by reducing taxes the people pay.There is a lack of evidence to show how much money merging the three towns would save. The reduction of taxes may be a good thing but it affects more than just the local businesses, local governments, it has effects over the schools and their teachers, police departments, hospitals, and fire departments.
One proposal for the lowering of taxes in the United States is Herman Cain’s 999 Plan. Herman Cain is a republican politician running for president in the year 2012. The 999 Plan is a tax reform plan that would change personal income tax, national sales tax, and corporate sales tax all to nine percent. (Astor) The argument for the plan is that it would strengthen the economy and create jobs because it would lower taxes by 26 percent on businesses, therefore giving them incentive to start hiring, therefore creating new jobs for Americans. Currently the United States Unemployment rate is at 9.1 percent. Also corporations would be more willing to bring their profits home due to the lower