Thursday, March 31, 2022

Bernie Sanders Just Proposed a 95% Business Tax. Here’s Why That’s So Absurd

Bernie Sanders Just Proposed a 95% Business Tax. Here’s Why That’s So Absurd
  • What’s really driving this proposal is not substantive policy considerations, but the senator's deeply ingrained propensity toward class warfare and envy.
"...Here are some of the details of the senator’s plan.
“Companies would pay the current 21% corporate tax rate on earnings up to the amounts they recorded before the pandemic, and then have to pay a 95% rate for profits above those levels,” Bloomberg explains. “The total tax is capped at 75% of a company’s income in a single year. The levy would only apply to corporations with at least $500 million in annual revenue.”
Here are three big problems with this radical and misguided proposal.
...3. Profits Are Actually a Good Thing, Not Something to Punish...Read all!

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