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Please explain how that works, if you don't mind. Let me see if I have this right. By reducing capital gain rates ( taxes ), the high income folks pay more in taxes? And, exactly how does "holding investments less" affect income and taxes? Do not high income folks change their investments, and the way they invest all the time? Whether they are invested in stocks, bonds, currency, real estate, commodities, etc., they keep up with the economic trends, move their money accordingly, and by doing so, they protect their investments ( money). Am I wrong here? If so, please explain where I failed to understand investments and taxes. Thanks.
If you have more money than what you need to live on you have two choices; either put it in your mattress or invest it in the hopes of making more money. If you invest it then jobs are created. Stocks and bonds are instruments to finance investments in growth. That is a good thing.
I would rather have the money in the hands of "the rich" so they can use it to make more money (i.e. invest to create jobs) than to have it in the hands of a government bureaucrat who was elected by special interest groups.
However, the better thing to do is not spend so much money on the government so that nobody gets taxed so much.