Thirteen Ways to Tax the Rich

Thirteen Ways to Tax the Rich

1. Require Professional Investors to Bring Their Offshore Trillions Back to US Banks.

2. Require US-Based Multinationals to Repatriate Funds Hoarded in Offshore Subsidiaries.

3. Incentivize Domestic Investment and Job Creation for Corporations Sitting on Trillions in Cash.

4. Implement a Financial Transactions Tax on Stocks, Bonds and Derivatives.

5. Raise Capital Gains, Dividends Tax and Restore Estate Tax to 1980 Levels.

6. End the Bush-Era Tax Cuts

7. Restore Top Personal and Corporate Tax Rates to 1980 Levels.

8. Stabilize State Revenues With a Business-to-Business 2 Percent Value-Added Tax.

9. De-Incentivize States' "Race to the Bottom" With a Relocation Tax.

10. Increase the Social Security Payroll Tax on Wages and Salaries (Earned Incomes).

11. Transform Social Security Into a True Social Insurance Tax.

12. Increase Medicare's 1.45 Percent Payroll Tax by 0.25 Percent.

13. Tax the "Big-Four Parasite Industries": Banks, Oil, Health Insurance and Big Pharma.

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