{"id":471867,"date":"2010-03-25T16:21:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T20:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f87\/punishing-investment-reconciliation-bills-capital-gains-tax-hike-prosperit-41383\/"},"modified":"2010-03-25T16:21:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T20:21:27","slug":"punishing-investment-the-reconciliation-bills-capital-gains-tax-hike-is-a-prosperit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/471867","title":{"rendered":"Punishing Investment: The reconciliation bill&#8217;s capital-gains-tax hike is a prosperit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>03.25.10 03:48 AM<\/p>\n<p>Phil Kerpen<br \/>\nMarch 25, 2010 4:00 A.M.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the president signed the Democrats\u0092 health-care-reform bill, but the House\u0092s \u0093reconciliation\u0094 bill of fixes has yet to become law. The Senate is debating it now and might vote on it this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Among the bad provisions that the reconciliation bill would add to the law is a new 3.8 percent Medicare tax on capital gains and dividends. Between this and the hike that was already slated to come at the end of this year, the tax on investment income will jump from 15 percent today to 23.8 percent in 2013 if the reconciliation bill passes.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest at <a href=\"http:\/\/article.nationalreview.com\/print\/?q=ZWVkYWQ4ZjZkMTUxNmI5MWNjYTA2YTFhMzA3ZTE5MTA=\" >National Review Online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to a <a href=\"http:\/\/kerpen.hipcast.com\/deluge\/2c8f7551-deb4-0564-ccb5-20c1481e8cf6.mp3\" >related 2.5-minute KerpenCast here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americansforprosperity.org\/032510-punishing-investment-reconciliation-bills-capital-gains-tax-hike-prosperity-killer\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americansforprosperity.org\/032510-punishing-investment-reconciliation-bills-capital-gains-tax-hike-prosperity-killer\" >http:\/\/www.americansforprosperity.or&#8230;sperity-killer<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>03.25.10 03:48 AM Phil Kerpen March 25, 2010 4:00 A.M. On Tuesday, the president signed the Democrats\u0092 health-care-reform bill, but the House\u0092s \u0093reconciliation\u0094 bill of fixes has yet to become law. The Senate is debating it now and might vote on it this afternoon. Among the bad provisions that the reconciliation bill would add to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5457,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}