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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Harris’s tax plan includes a tax on unrealized capital gains. That’s a huge tax hike on everyone with an IRA, 401k, or brokerage account. People who aren’t rich also have these accounts and will owe this new tax under her plan.[/quote]
This would apply to households worth &gt; $100 million. Are you really worried, pp, or just fear mongering?[/quote]

DP. A tax on unrealized capital gains is pernicious. They will sell it by saying it applies only to the ultrarich, those worth over $100million, but the fact is it would set a precedent that would allow future taxing of unrealized gains for people at much lower income brackets (if determined to be constitutional, which it may not be). Remember when the AMT was to apply only to the "rich?"

In fact, the changes proposed to estate tax would apply an unrealized capital gains tax to estates over $5 million by construing death as a sales event. And you would have to pay estate taxes to boot. It is not hard to get to a $5 million estate in the DC area, where many perfectly ordinary houses are valued at close to $2 million. Someone leaving an estate of $5 million plus a bit more is not ultrarich.[/quote]

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