PoliCHARTZ - Thread of U.S. Politics & the Presidential Election

[Final-Fan]

Now that you're back, could you please address some of the rebuttals that were made to your previous assertion in this thread?

Final-Fan said:

halogamer1989 said:
When u tax capital gains, corps pass increase prices on to the consumer. It is economics 101.  In summation, you are hurting the long term growth of free markets by voting BO.

Why are capital gains relevant to corporations "passing increased prices on" to anyone?  As I understand it, Capital gains are GAINS on INVESTMENTS like stocks.  Considering the fact that the capital gains tax is already lower than the income tax in many cases and higher in no case (including all proposals I'm aware of), I don't see the problem.  (Anyway, I'd think that in the current stock market situation people would be happy just to HAVE a gain in the first place.) 

If companies are going to be assholes to their customers because they want to make MORE profit, that's not the fault of (reasonable) taxes on profits, that's the fault of companies being assholes.  At least that's the way it seems to me.  I'm sure you have paid much more attention to the capital gains issue than I have, so please explain why you believe my position is incorrect. 

Why should the capital gains tax be lower than the income tax?  (Let alone ZERO as your post seems to imply you would want!)

Also, please try to choose your words carefully.  I know this has been a bit of a challenge for you in the past.  "I am not an enemy of Democracy-just one of those who try to subvert it by fraudulent practices"  Read that twice and see if anything looks odd to you...

[edit:  haha, nevermind, I misread what you wrote.  Good for a laugh though.  Try parsing the sentence differently ... or not, you were fine.  I do disagree with your characterization of ACORN however.]