2024 State of the Union: Biden says no billionaire should pay lower tax rates than a teacher (bilingual) 2024 年國情咨文：拜登表示億萬富翁的稅率不應低於教師

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zGzYtry7MA

CNBC Television

Mar 7, 2024

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers the 2024 State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress.

Transcript

[Applause]

And by the way the first couple years we cut the deficit. Now let me speak to the question of fundamental fairness for all Americans. I've been delivering Real Results in fiscally responsible ways.  We've already cut the federal deficit, we've already cut the federal def over trillion.dollars. I signed the bipartisan deal to cut another trillion dollars. the next decade, it's my goal to cut the federal office another three trillion, by making big corporations very well finally beginning to pay their fair share.

Look I'm a capitalist.  You want a maker who can make a million or millions of bucks, that's great. just pay your fair share in taxes. A fair tax code is how we invest things to make this country great. Healthcare education, defense, and so much more. But here's the deal - the last Administration enacted a $2 trillion tax cut which overwhelmingly benefits the toping 1% or the very wealthy and the biggest corporation and exploded the federal deficit. They added more to the national debt than any presidential term in American history.  Check the numbers, folks at home. Does anybody really think the tax code is fair? Do you really think the wealthy and big corporations need another $2 trillion tax cut. Give me a break. I sure don't. I'm going to keep fighting like hell to make it fair under my plan - nobody earning less than $400,000 a year will pay additional penny in federal taxes. Nobody. Not one penny and they haven't.

Yet in fact the child tax credit I passed during the Pandemic cut taxes for millions of working families and cut child poverty in half, restore that child pack credit. No child should go hungry in this country.  

The way to make the tax code fair is to make big corporations  - the very wealthy begin to pay their fair share. Remember in 2020, 55 of the biggest companies in America made $40 billion and paid zero in federal income tax. Zero!

Not anymore, thanks to the law I wrote. When we signed that big companies have to pay a minimum 15% but that's still less than working people paying federal taxes. It's time to raise corporate minimum tax to at least 21% so every big Corporation finally begins to pay their fair share, also on ending tax breaks for big farmer, Big Oil,  private checks,  massive executive pay, when it's only supposed to be a million dollars that could be deducted, they can pay 20 million if they want but deduct a million end it.

Now you know there are 1,000 billionaires in America. Do you know what the average federal tax is for those billionaires? Now they're making great sacrifices - 8.2% that's far less than the rate at which the vast majority of Americans pay tax. No billionaire should pay a lower federal tax rate than a teacher, a sanitation worker or a nurse.

Reference：

How private equity conquered America | The Chris Hedges Report

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shv9g-4xXww

Mar 1, 2024  The Real News Network Podcasts

Private equity firms are buying up the US economy and stripping it for parts. From healthcare to education, utilities, and more, massive firms like Blackstone and the Carlyle Group have acquired vast holdings across critical industries essential to the health and well-being of everyday people. Instead of seeking to make these ventures more profitable, private equity firms are more likely to orchestrate to bleed their assets for short-term gains—even if those assets are universites, hospitals, or nursing homes. Gretchen Morgenson, author of These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America, returns to The Chris Hedges Report to discuss how private equity came to hold America hostage. This is the second part of an earlier interview, you can watch the first part here: https://therealnews.com/the-collapse-... 

My Comment

Joe Biden's raising the big corporation tax from 8.2% to 10 -17% then to 21% seems to be a big deal. 

His harsh rebuke Donald Trump for "the last Administration enacted a $2 trillion tax cut which overwhelmingly benefits the toping 1% or the very wealthy and the biggest corporation and exploded the federal deficit" seems to be potent as well. 

Both he and Trump are capitalists, why then the former seems to care while the latter does not about the so-called wealth-tax policy for?

Well, it turns out the wealth tax policy is at best, unrealistic and at worst,  is fake. The 1,000 billionaires can easily pass their tax losses on to the masses by either increasing prices which would increase the inflation rate or reducing costs which would reduce the employment, or both.

The big bourgeoisie cannot and will not lose because the capitalist ownership countries are all under the yoke of bourgeois dictatorship as the waged slaves are under the yoke of their capitalist masters.

Donald Trump understood this fact well enough to tax the one percent according to the actual situation of capitalism with no fanfare whereas Joe Biden carried out political stunts and hoped that the waged slaves are gullible enough to elect him president. During the Trump administration, the inflation rate was minimum whereas during the current Biden administration it keeps rising and will explode if he will be re-elected.

The only currently viable solution of the growing inequality conundrum is to engage in supporting Trump for changes that the working people will abide making the forthcoming New Democratic Revolution. [Mark Wain 03/21/2024

https://www.youtube.com/@wtkh 

https://blog.creaders.net/u/12901/]

Translation from the English into Chinese （漢語譯文）

2024 年國情咨文：拜登表示億萬富翁的稅率不應低於教師

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zGzYtry7MA

CNBC Television

Mar 7, 2024

文字記錄

[掌聲]

順便說一下，頭幾年我們削減了赤字。 現在讓我談談所有美國人的基本公平問題。 我一直以對財務負責的方式提供真實的結果。 我們已經削減了聯邦赤字，我們已經削減了超過萬億美元的聯邦赤字。 我簽署了兩黨協議，再削減一萬億美元。 未來十年，我的目標是通過讓大公司最終開始支付其公平份額，將聯邦辦公室再削減三萬億美元。

瞧我是個資本家。 你想要一個能賺一百萬或幾百萬美元的製造商，那就太好了。 只需支付您應得的稅款即可。 公平的稅法是我們投資讓這個國家變得偉大的方式。 醫療保健教育、國防等等。 但這裡是協議——上一屆政府頒布了 2 萬億美元的減稅政策，這對最富有的 1% 人或非常富有的人和最大的公司有利，並導致聯邦赤字激增。 他們增加的國家債務比美國歷史上任何一位總統任期都多。 家裡的朋友們，檢查一下數字。 有人真的認為稅法是公平的嗎？ 你真的認為富人和大公司需要另外徵收 2 萬億美元的稅嗎？ 讓我喘口氣。 我當然不會。 我將繼續拼盡全力，讓我的計劃變得公平——年收入低於 40 萬美元的人不會繳納額外的聯邦稅。 沒有人。 一分錢都沒有，他們也沒有。

但事實上，我在大流行期間通過的兒童稅收抵免政策為數百萬工薪家庭減稅，並將兒童貧困人口減少了一半，恢復了兒童稅收抵免。 這個國家的任何孩子都不應該挨餓。

使稅法公平的方法是讓大公司——非常富有的人開始繳納他們的公平份額。 請記住，2020 年，美國最大的 55 家公司賺取了 400 億美元，並且繳納的聯邦所得稅為零。 零！

不再是這樣了，多虧了我寫的法律。 當我們簽署大公司必須繳納至少 15% 的稅時，但這仍然低於繳納聯邦稅的工薪階層。 是時候將企業最低稅率提高到至少 21%，以便每個大公司最終開始支付其公平份額，同時結束對大農場主、大石油公司、私人支票、巨額高管薪酬的稅收減免，而這本來應該是一百萬可以扣，願意的話可以付兩千萬，扣一百萬就完事了。

現在你知道美國有 1,000 名億萬富翁。 你知道那些億萬富翁的平均聯邦稅是多少嗎？ 現在他們正在做出巨大的犧牲——8.2%，遠遠低於絕大多數美國人的納稅稅率。 億萬富翁繳納的聯邦稅率不應低於教師、環衛工人或護士。

參考：

私募股權如何征服美國| 克里斯·赫奇斯報告

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shv9g-4xXww

2024 年 3 月 1 日 真實新聞網絡播客

私募股權公司正在收購美國經濟並將其剝離。 從醫療保健到教育、公用事業等，黑石集團和凱雷集團等大型公司已經收購了對人們的健康和福祉至關重要的關鍵行業的大量股份。 私募股權公司不會尋求讓這些企業獲得更多利潤，而是更有可能精心安排資產流失以獲取短期收益——即使這些資產是大學、醫院或療養院。 《這些是掠奪者：私募股權如何運作並破壞美國》一書的作者格雷琴·摩根森 (Gretchen Morgenson) 重返《克里斯·赫奇斯報告》，討論私募股權如何劫持美國。 這是早期採訪的第二部分，您可以在這裡觀看第一部分：https://therealnews.com/the-collapse-...

我的評論

喬·拜登將大公司稅從 8.2% 提高到 10 -17%，然後再提高到 21%，這似乎是一件大事。

他對唐納德·特朗普的嚴厲斥責似乎也很有效：“上屆政府實施了 2 萬億美元的減稅政策，壓倒性地使最富有的 1% 人或非常富有的人和最大的公司受益，並導致聯邦赤字激增”。

他和特朗普都是資本家，為什麼前者似乎關心，而後者則不關心所謂的徵收財富稅的政策？

事實證明，財富稅政策往好處說是不切實際的，往壞處說是假的。 這1000名億萬富翁可以很容易地將稅收損失轉嫁給大眾，要麼提高價格（導致通貨膨脹率上升），要麼降低成本（導致就業減少），或者兩種轉嫁方式都加以運用。

大資產階級不能也不會失敗，因為資本主義所有制國家都處於資產階級專政的枷鎖之下，就像工薪奴隸都處於資本主義主人的枷鎖之下一樣。

唐納德·特朗普深知這一點，根據資本主義的實際情況，毫不張揚地對百分之一的人徵稅，而喬·拜登卻進行了政治噱頭，希望那些拿工資的奴隸容易上當受騙，選他當總統。 特朗普執政期間，通貨膨脹率處於最低水平，而拜登執政期間，通貨膨脹率不斷上升，如果他連任，通貨膨脹率將會爆炸。

目前解決日益嚴重的不平等難題的唯一可行的解決方案是支持特朗普進行變革，讓勞動人民在按照這些變革進行即將到來的新民主革命。 [馬克·韋恩 03/21/2024

https://www.youtube.com/@wtkh

https://blog.creaders.net/u/12901/]