As Joe Biden Proposes Capital Gains Hike, What Do Bitcoiners Bemoan? 

What Does Joe Biden Promise? 

A number of bitcoin proponents have been discussing the capital gains tax implications Joe Biden plans to invoke if he wins the American Presidency as the US presidential election is only 14 days away. Capital gains will be raised from 21% to 39.6% for certain income brackets according to Biden’s plan. Floating the idea of cutting long term capital gains cut down to 15% was the current US President Donald Trump two weeks ago. 

The US may see a new president or it may get another four years of Donald Trump in case the incumbent wins the election in just two weeks. If Joe Biden was elected president, this week a number of people have been discussing what taxes will be like in the US. 

After seeing how Biden plans to tax wealthy individuals in New York, for instance, hip-hop mogul 50 Cent tweeted that he was going to vote for Trump. Discussing Biden’s tax increases and the direct form of taxation known as capital gains, was additionally a number of bitcoiners. 

They are talking about the levy taken by the state when someone makes a gain on the sale of any asset after the original purchase when people discuss the term capital gains tax. Thereafter when they are applying to levies that are taken by the state after the asset is retained by the owner for a period of more than 12-months are long-term capital gains. 

What Is The Opinion Of Bitcoiners?

It was found that on discussing 50 Cent’s commentary on Twitter, thereby the popular crypto pundit Mike in Space was then saying a lot of people are now going to realise they prefer not going broke to being woke come election day. 

Disgusted with Biden’s tax proposals and stressing the following was another individual on Twitter this week. 

It is evident that here Biden wants to raise the capital gains tax significantly. Over the majority of seniors who live on a fixed income this screw. From bitcoin or any investments for that matter, it also impacts anyone taking profits.

The long-term capital gain taxes for individuals who make $1 million per year or above will increase from 21% to 39.6% according to Biden’s tax plan. Some reports show that however, Biden’s proposal could increase capital gains taxes as high as 43.4% because of an added 3.8% payroll tax making matters worse. Trying to claim that the income bracket proposal is concrete, the Biden tax plan is not 100% set in stone even though online fact-checkers and mainstream media outlets do. 

In this context, it is good to remember that Biden has repeatedly said that with the increased taxes and capital gains hike it will not affect certain income brackets that are under $400k to $1 M in fact as The Hill contributor Naomi Jagoda’s recent report notes. Biden’s tax proposal has not yet been tailored to meet the objective however as Jagoda’s report also implies. Thereafter it comes to be known that Americans cannot take any politician’s promises seriously whereas Biden could thereby change the capital gains requirements on a whim.

Complaining about Biden’s capital gains hike proposal, was Openbazaar and BCHD developer Chris Pacia on Facebook. As Pacia wrote, they are really getting tired of the fact that Joe Biden claims he won’t raise taxes on ordinary people. Directly hitting my life savings is his capital gain tax increase from 23.5% to 43.4%. To claim he isn’t taxing ordinary people is complete bullshit.

The Overview By Industry Experts

Led by Arjun Menon, a team of Goldman Sachs analysts meanwhile wrote a note to the investors where he says that Biden’s capital gains hike is set to spark a massive stock sell-off. The last time the capital gains taxes were increased in 2013, it fuelled a massive $100 billion stock sell-off as Goldman’s investors note detailed.

As also along with a number of the cryptocurrency investors those have expressed dissatisfaction with the proposal of Biden on capital gains increase on Twitter.

One individual wrote that thereafter you need to re-evaluate your life decisions if you are invested in crypto or stocks and you are voting for Biden. Definitely, Biden is set to raise capital gains tax from 23.8% to 43.4%. 

For different reasons, another bitcoiner wrote how it came to be a toss-up between Trump and Biden. The individual said that Trump doesn’t like bitcoin. Whereas it is probable that Biden will probably raise taxes on capital gains.

Wholeheartedly believing that Biden’s plan will only affect rich people are many progressives. The income bracket between $400k and $1 million could represent a lot more people in the very near future as Biden supporters don’t realise that due to the Federal Reserve’s reckless inflation creation. 

The Last Words To Sum Up… 

The average American income in 1979 was $16,530 and it has taken only two decades thereby increasing 431.54% thanks to rapid inflation for example. In order to meet Joe Biden’s $400k tax requirement, in 2020 the average American income of $87,864 only needs to jump 355%. 

The incumbent president has yet to release any official tax proposal details thus far whereas mainstream media has been attempting to publicise Donald Trump’s plan. As the president made a pledge on August 13 to cut the top federal tax for capital gains down to 15%, although people predict that Trump aims to cut the current capital gains tax.