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Economics, Pethokoukis

Paul Ryan is making the wrong argument about investment taxes

James Pethokoukis | January 24, 2013, 11:56 am

One of the worst aspects of the recent Obama tax hike was its treatment of investment income, raising capital gains and dividend tax rates by 60% (when you include the PPACA 3.8% surtax). The tax increase a) worsened further the … read more >

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Economics, Pethokoukis

Michael Kinsley’s very strange take on taxing capital gains

James Pethokoukis | December 20, 2012, 2:40 pm

It just kind of bugs Michael Kinsley, at a gut level, that the US tax code gives a preference for investment income. Kinsley in his Bloomberg column: Critics of the capital-gains tax are absolutely correct when they say that a … read more >

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Economics, Pethokoukis

Why cranking up taxes on capital gains and dividends is a real clunker of an idea

James Pethokoukis | December 3, 2012, 10:13 am

Ben White, Politico’s Morning Money columnist offers up this “fiscal cliff” tidbit: Lot of chatter about what an increase in the capital gains and dividend tax rates would do to markets and the economy. M.M. brought this up with the … read more >

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Economics, Taxes and Spending

Facebook co-founder flees America’s coming tax deluge

James Pethokoukis | May 11, 2012, 2:52 pm

From Bloomberg: Eduardo Saverin, the billionaire co-founder of Facebook Inc. (FB), renounced his U.S. citizenship before an initial public offering that values the social network at as much as $96 billion, a move that may reduce his tax bill. Facebook … read more >

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Economics, Taxes and Spending

Why WonkBlog and Jared Bernstein are wrong on taxing capital

James Pethokoukis | January 20, 2012, 3:21 pm

Liberals really hate that capital income, at least in the form of cap gains, is taxed at a lower rate than labor income. Really hate it. Just look at the reaction to Mitt Romney’s admission that he pays around a … read more >

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