tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399730406480392183.post5742432939970511199..comments2024-03-27T11:18:34.222-03:00Comments on Viable Opposition: The Clinton Tax Plan - What We Know So FarA Political Junkiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342345936277964422noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399730406480392183.post-70846058333312840832016-04-14T03:51:55.310-03:002016-04-14T03:51:55.310-03:00I'm a middle class American and Clinton's ...I'm a middle class American and Clinton's capital gains tax will destroy incentives for ordinary folks like me to invest. Since you'll have to hold stocks for 6 years minimum to get the same 1 year long-term capital gain benefit as today, it'll gut markets of 'buy & hold' investors and leave only day traders and speculators. No stock has a 6+ year time horizon for predictable gains, so No one will bother holding that long.<br /><br />Average folks who work for a living have very few options these days. A)Work till they're in the grave. B)Invest their savings in real estate (which is currently in the largest speculative bubble Ever). C)Or start investing in stocks as this coming recession bottoms out. <br /><br />Hillary's tax change creates a HUGE disincentive to choose plan C because of it's overly long holding period; Uncle Sam gets almost 1/2 the gains if you try to get out before 1/2 a decade has passed. No Thanks.<br /><br />Thank you for this article! This has convinced me not only to 'not' vote for Hillary but to explicitly vote for whomever has the best chance at beating her. If your article shows Sanders supporting the same gutting of capital gains incentives, I'll be voting for 'anyone' who opposes him as well. Life is too short to be voting for politicians based on personal values or principles when they're trying to take away every opportunity for middle class Americans ever get ahead or even retire.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399730406480392183.post-57909846109822323422016-04-13T13:02:56.758-03:002016-04-13T13:02:56.758-03:00I think these plans both her, Bernie's, Trumps...I think these plans both her, Bernie's, Trumps, and Cruz's are all not worth the paper or time it takes to read them. They won't happen congress writes the laws the president signs them. These might be decent ideas but nearly all of the people in congress are wealthy and all have wealthy benefactors. Why would anyone involved vote for their own tax increase? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com