WASHINGTON: The US President of the Allied Democrats Joe Biden considers imposing taxes on the richest Americans, the old goal of the left of politics which can eventually be applied to pay a massive social expenditure plan.
Democratic senators are expected to immediately specify proposals that will enable Washington to reap income from increasing the value of shares, property and other assets of the richest Americans, which are generally sold unless sold.
The idea came as a Democrat in Congress scrambling to find an agreement on a social expenditure bill that was worth under $ 2 trillion that the moderate party so far refused to graduate, worried about destructive economic effects.
“I won’t call it a wealth tax, but it will help get capital profits which are the extraordinary part of the richest individual income and now run away from taxation until they come true,” said the Finance Secretary Janet Yellen Sunday at CNN.
But Nancy’s democratic home speaker pelosion conceded to the same network as the plan was only around $ 200 billion in revenue for a decade, far from the total label price of the expenditure bill, which meant the party still had to find other ways to pay for it.
The social expenditure plan is one of the two Biden bills that have proposed that have become their presidential boards, others become infrastructure proposals worth around $ 1.2 trillion.
While he managed to get a large pandemic rescue package that was implemented in March, these two proposals had mired by enthusiasm for their expenses.
Last month, home and meaning the committee proposes an increase in taxes on the top recipients and the most profitable businesses, but those ideas have withered in the objections of moderate Democrats who are worried they damage the country’s competitiveness.
Senior policy director for the Committee for the Federal Budget Marc Goldwein who is responsible for the unrealized tax, the increase in capital is not realized now because it is less controversial than other ideas to reap income.
“This proposal has an advantage because it is not out there to be hit and more than a few other proposals,” he said.
“It touches a problem that I think has been a concern for people, which is an increase in billionaire wealth.” On the campaign line and in Congress, Progressive Democrats have pointed to fingers in very rich Americans such as the founder of Amazon Jeff Bezos or Tesla Elon Musk’s head.
Biden adopted rhetoric along the boost of his expenses, arguing that rich people need to pay “fair share.” Earlier this month, American-Left-Left groups for justice and institutes for policy studies calculated that billionaires saw their wealth up 70 percent during a pandemic.
But the proposal, such as many floating in recent weeks, facing roads that are difficult to apply in the congress where the majority of the major republics will not support the Bill of Social and Democratic expenditure still split with differences.
Taxation is one of the most controversial topics in the United States, and the Union of Conservative National Taxpayers has warned that levies aimed at billionaire wealth that have not been realized can eventually be applied to all Americans, and may not be constitutional.
“There are several ways to soak the wealth, while a bad policy, do not raise constitutional problems,” Joe Baykup-Henchman, Vice President of the Group Policy, said in a statement.
“They might try to apply it to the billionaire, but once the precedent is regulated that the tax increase that has not been realized is a fair game, which eliminates the constitutional barrier to the tax on the value of the house and” retirement said, said the Bishop-Henchman said.