So called “capital gains” are actually unearned income, economic rent. Expanding tax favors for capital gains worsens inequality and impairs the economy.
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In 1986, Congress made realized capital gains fully taxable, in the spirit of uniformity animating the 1986 reform. Now we are witnessing a major effort to revive the exclusion of part or all of capital gains from taxable income, partly on the grounds that much of the gains are “phantom” income, an illusion of inflation. . . . → Read More: The Partiality of Indexing Capital Gains |
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