Biden's tax plan is an act of supreme economic masochism that would erase 40 years of pro-growth progress

Given that we seem to be living in a surreal era where up is down, right is wrong, good is evil, and 2 + 2 = 5, we guess it is appropriate that Joe Biden has named his just-released scheme to raise taxes by nearly $4 trillion the “Buy America Plan.”

No tax agenda in modern history would do more to chase jobs and investment out of the United States than this “sock it to the rich” sophistry.

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It reverses virtually every tax cut under the Trump law, which gave us the lowest unemployment rate and highest income gains in 30 years, a surge in wealth and stock values, and attracted nearly $1 trillion of foreign capital to the United States.

Biden’s plan erases 40 years of pro-growth progress in reducing tax rates.  Instead, he raises tax rates on work, investment, small businesses, energy producers, and corporations back to the levels that prevailed in the United States in the 1970s.

It is the antithesis of tax reform because instead of lowering rates and eliminating tax loopholes, it raises tax rates to above 50 percent while carving out massive new tax loopholes (for example for green energy) for special friends and favored industries of Biden’s friends and financial supporters.

It is a tax plan that will make tax accountants and Washington lobbyists rich.

The victims of this plan will not be the rich. The rich will lose income for sure, but they are already rich.

Small businesses will get clobbered. About two-thirds of those in the top one percent own, operate or invest in small business enterprises. How does raising taxes on employers, create more jobs?  The first people who get laid off when the economy contracts are minorities and the lowest skilled workers.

The stock market will also take a big hit, and that means the 150 million Americans with 401k plans and other retirement funds will see deep reductions in their lifetime savings.

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Union pension funds will take it on the chin as the trillions of dollars of retirement dollars are invested in stocks. The combination of a near 55 percent hike in the capital gains tax on stock ownership and the 25 percent rise in the capital gains tax could depress stock values by more than 20 percent and may cause a Great Depression-era stock market crash.

It is also built on a big lie: that the rich don’t pay “their fair share of taxes.”  The top 1 percent pay almost 38 percent of all income taxes and the top 10 percent pay 60 percent of the income tax.

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Perhaps the biggest assault on blue-collar America is the war on domestic energy production.

The single biggest jobs creator from 2007-2016 was the oil and gas industry thanks to the shale revolution.

Biden’s plan would regulate shale production out of existence and raise taxes on other oil and gas producers. This is an industry that employs, directly and indirectly, more than 5 million jobs, according to the American Petroleum Institute.

Many of those $100,000+ salary jobs are in battleground states like Colorado, Michigan, New Mexico, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

In short, the Biden tax plan, in sum, is an act of supreme economic masochism.

No hostile foreign enemy could do more to harm our nation than Joe Biden and his new best friend Bernie Sanders, who helped write what he calls the “most progressive tax plan since FDR.”

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He’s right. Take a look at Biden’s progressive tax rates below:

Biden’s Progressive Tax Rates

Current       Biden Plan

Corporate Tax                           21%               28%

Small Business Income Tax      37%               39.6%

Income and Payroll Tax            37%                51%

Capital Gains Tax                      23.8%            39.6%

Death Tax on Unsold Stock       0%                 40%

The communists in Beijing who want to make China the new world economic superpower must be dancing a jig.

It is a reminder that great empires are always destroyed from within not from without.

Oh, and one more thing, now, can we PLEASE stop pretending that “Lunch Bucket Joe” is a moderate?

Stephen Moore is a member of Donald Trump’s economic recovery task force.  He also serves as an economist at FreedomWorks. 

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