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    Home » Blog » Buried beneath Biden’s terrible debate performance are even worse tax plans

    Buried beneath Biden’s terrible debate performance are even worse tax plans

    July 5, 2024Updated:July 5, 2024 Business & Economy 0 Comments
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    President Joe Biden’s lax- mouthed, rasping, floundering, and all- around incomprehensible dumpster fire conversation performance has drowned out any iota of substance from the news cycle in the aftermath. The headlines, which are still entirely preoccupied with the senility of our current president, are not even made fun of by barbs about past president Donald Trump’s pending felony imprisonment or whether the soon-to-be 2024 Republican candidate after had intercourse with a porn star.

    Biden staffers have carefully concealed his frailty and forties by keeping him from the public eye between night and morning. However, a spherical and abrupt cognitive decline has caused a panic in the Democrat Party, grave concern for our friends overseas, and outrage among Americans across the political spectrum for the commander in chief’s behavior.

    Given Biden’s powerful distraction from the debate’s severe” design,” significantly less attention has been paid to the debate’s subpar material. It’s worthwhile to examine how awful Biden’s taxes and saving plans were when he really managed to explain them given that his 90-minute panic on June 27 actually started when he stammered only outrageously that” we eventually beat Medicare” in response to questions about his governmental policies.

    The delusion that people can have their cake and eat it is at the heart of the Democratic Party’s total agenda. With the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, Biden praised Trump for lowering taxes, but he also pledged to extend all the tax cuts that are available to families making less than$ 400,000. While Biden promised to “fix the tax system”, he did n’t explain his current tax proposal, instead attacking a straw man.

    ” We have a thousand trillionaires in America— I mean, entrepreneurs in America— and what’s happening”? Biden rambled on the stage during the conversation. ” They’re in a situation where they, in fact, pay 8.2 % in taxes. If they just paid 24 % or 25 %, either one of those numbers, they’d raise$ 500 million— billion dollars, I should say — in a 10- year period. We’d be able to clean out his loan”.

    Nobody should be surprised to learn that none of the aforementioned is accurate.

    The 8 % lie that Biden has repeatedly propagated makes reference to the tax rate on unrealized gains like retirement savings and stock holdings that have n’t been sold or liquidated. In reality, Biden’s own Treasury has conceded that our income tax system remains highly progressive, with the top 1 % of earners paying an effective 31.5 % tax rate on their total earnings, compared to the 27 % paid by the top decile of earners overall, the 10 %- 12 % paid by average earners, and the negative income tax rate enjoyed by the bottom quintile of earners.

    And Biden’s support of the Bernie Sanders ruse conceals the true scope of the issue by saying that entrepreneurs can basically foot the bill that he has expanded by the billions. According to Forbes ‘ information, the total success of all the country’s billionaires is only about$ 5 trillion, and the assessment does indeed include unrealized gains and holdings. Even if you liquidated all the holdings of every billionaire in the country, Russian- style, and threw them in the Gulag, that$ 5.5 trillion may include about two years of our existing yearly$ 2 trillion deficits, not a spoonful more to pay for” child care” or “elder care”, as Biden promised. ( And it’s important to point out that we do have a socialized elder care system known as Social Security, and that Biden’s current plan is to bleed it until benefits are reduced by 21 % in nine years. )

    Contrary to his claims otherwise, Biden’s actual tax plan does not spare those households making less than$ 400,000. It was progressive, both in terms of its immediate income tax relief for lower-income individuals and in terms of the demonstrable downstream effect of improved GDP growth.

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    The real problem, of course, is spending, not taxes. At the height of the TCJA’s implementation, corporate tax revenue and individual income are 8.6 % and 1.8 % of GDP, respectively, with the latter being higher than the historical average and the latter being equal to the average of the previous 40 years. By contrast, outlays are dramatically departing from the historical norm. Whereas federal spending only consumed 21 % of our annual economic output, that number soared to 22.7 % last year and 24.2 % this year. With net interest costs rising by 42 % from last year, and total interest payments already exceeding what we spend on our entire defense budget, the debt itself is becoming more expensive.

    Blaming Trump’s tax cuts is easy, but Biden’s real problem is one he refuses to solve, lest Democrats admit we have an addiction to spending.

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