Would you rather see the capital gains rate go to 25% or...? [View all]

[kentuck]

the income tax rate on the wealthy go to 39%?

At the present time, most of the truly wealthy pay the tax rate of 15% or less. Most of their money is in capital gains investments.

However, we hear very little about this. Mostly we hear about the top rate going from 36% to 39% on those making more than $250,000 per year.

But if the capital gains was taxed at 25% instead of 15%, the wealthy would be paying a lot more in taxes from their capital gains than from a measly increase in the top income tax rate.

Shouldn't we be talking more about raising the capital gains rate and less about raising the income tax rate. since they have their money in capital gains?

It's like moving around a peanut shell on a table. Don't look at the shell under the bucket...