Uh-oh. New Dem idea: Extending the Medicare tax to interest, dividends, and cap gains. | The Homa Files

Uh-oh. New Dem idea: Extending the Medicare tax to interest, dividends, and cap gains.

I don’t know how I missed this one.

In the secret WH talks re: reconciling the House and senate bills, another taxing idea slipped out:

Boosting the Medicare payroll tax – either by increasing the rate or extending it to unearned income – is still a live option, according to sources familiar with the talks.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31480.html#ixzz0caQSCeWR

“They” like to call it unearned income. We income taxpayers (i.e. the minority) like to call it interest, dividends and capital gains — earnings previously sheltered from FICA and Medicare.

Now, this is getting personal.

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