The Truth About The Democrat’s $5 Trillion Tax Increase


Posted originally on Aug 27, 2024 By Martin Armstrong 

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The Democrats support always raising taxes that amount to robbing people with laws. They NEVER learn that Marxism has failed EVERY single time it has been tried. They do not give a damn about our country, our future, or retaining our culture. They are outright liars when it comes to claiming it is misinformation that people will be subjected to the proposed unrealized capital gains. I place the blame on the socialist Supreme Court when they were pushing the income tax. Suddenly, the Equal Protection Clause magically only applied to race, gender, or religion, not class.

Societies have often been divided by class throughout history. In ancient Rome, only high-ranking citizens were entitled to a jury trial. There were no PRISONS in Rome. Someone who committed a murder was sent to fight in the Colleseum as a gladiator. If they survived 3 years, they retired to be an instructor for two years. After that, even a slave was freed. A high-ranking aristocrat was sent into exile for such crimes.

Tax Rich Politicians Vote For Me

So here we have the Democrats once again pitching their hatred of class and promising that their $5 trillion tax proposals will NEVER impact the middle class – only those disgusting rich people who they hate but accept when they hand them millions of dollars for their anti-American campaigns for exceptions.

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They sold the income tax in the same way. Only those vile people who have started businesses and been successful will pay or go to prison. Only people who earned more than $3,000 were supposed to pay income taxes. They know how to bullshit everyone, so they cheer and create class warfare knowing the majority of people believe whatever they say and will never realize that they are played for fools. Eventually, you are their target.

AOC Tax Rich

They want to claim that social media lately deals with taxing unrealized capital gains as misinformationThey insist that Harris’ $5 trillion plan to tax unrealized gains will only apply to $100 million or more. They said the same scheme applied to income tax in 1913. Even if it taxing unrealized gains applied ONLY to those at the $100 million level and up, those people would be forced to sell their shares (1) ahead of the tax or (2) to pay taxes.

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Guess what! That will create a stock market crash that will impact everyone’s savings and pensions. They don’t want to talk about that. Then, if you had a stock that rose from $100 to $200, you would be taxed on the $100 gain. However, like gambling, you cannot write off your losses. So, the stock fell back to $100, and there was no refund. Kamala will create a Great Depression, and the market will probably crash for 2 years. If they pull off their assassination of Trump next time and rig the election, this will be the end of the bull market.

We do see a major turning point in 2026 on the horizon. A Democratic victory would perhaps turn that into a major low. There is no question that once any unrealized gains tax is passed, it will eventually apply to everything, for we are on the cusp of default. When the government realizes by waging endless wars against both China and Russia that when China dumps all our debt, interest rates will rise, and the budget will explode. They will then expand the tax by mere interpretation under IRS rules.

No Taxation Without Reform

This understandably paints a negative picture of “average Americans” being forced to pay taxes on “paper increases” in their asset values and denied credit for losses. They may not apply that to real estate, but certainly to shares. If they did try to apply that to the average person’s home, that would certainly bring about the Revolution. Are they that stupid? Probably. Then the question is those in the military would probably split between real Americans and imported aliens. It may end up like the Russian revolution of the have-nots vs the haves.

Tax Robbery

The $5 trillion tax hikes proposed by Kamala may be the catalyst that sparks the revolution, just as the Stamp Act in America did in 1765 in the American colonies. They never consider spending less. It is always just getting more from We the People. Kamala Harris’s proposal for a 44.6% tax on capital gains has also claimed to target only the rich. However, it will apply when you sell your home and seek to retire, move, or downsize after the kids are gone. The government will NEVER reduce spending. They need to bribe people to retain their position unless the terminate voting – which they just did in the Democratic Party extinguishing primaries.

Death Taxes

Welcome to the Land of Endless Taxation. When you die, they want 50% of what is left, if not more. Ben Franklin warned that the only two certainties in life were Death and Taxes. My father’s old law partner advised me if I died in New Jersey, tell my family to drag my body across the river before they told anybody – or get out of the state. I moved to Florida. New Jersey now has an EXIT TAX. California now wants to impose an EXIT TAX. You sell your house and do not buy another in New Jersey; they want an exit tax. NEVER do they ever question why people are leaving and reform. Instead, punish the bastards for daring to leave in their version of government –  economic indentured tax servitude. We are all now economic slaves, and if you fail to file telling them what you earned – that is jail time. They don’t imprison you for failure to pay, it is failure to tell them you owe money.

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Goodbye California and New York – Wealth Exodus Continues


Posted originally on Aug 21, 2024 By Martin Armstrong

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The exodus from blue states has not waned since the pandemic. Americans are seeking lower taxes, crime, and tyranny as half of our nation descends into utter chaos. A recent poll by SmartAsset found that Americans earning $200,000 or more have been the most eager to flee states like New York and California.

California and New York have lost more high-earners, and therefore higher taxpayers, than any other states. California is the least desirable state with an average outflow of 24,670  high-income households with an adjusted gross income (AGI) of $1.3m. New York is not far behind, with a net outflow of 12,040 high-earning households worth an average AGI of $1.1m.

Leaving California

California is rushing to implement legislation to punish those who dare to leave Newsom’s socialist utopia. I’ve discussed the exit tax on this blog in detail as businesses and individuals seeking to leave the Golden State must pay a fine. The government will look at all of your assets and investments to determine how much you will need to pay, which is usually 0.4% of someone’s net worth. Wealth historically flees when taxes rise, and to combat this issue, California plans to tax anyone with an income for $30 million for up to a full decade after they leave the state. Someone leaving the country entirely will still be forced to pay California for the privilege of leaving.

Other states will likely adopt an exit tax. New York’s state budget toppled, fueled by the migrant crisis, and they will begin to hunt their own citizens for funds because that is what governments have ALWAYS done when they find themselves insolvent.

California also has one of the highest tax brackets for income tax, often reaching 14.4%, while New York slaps a 10.9% tax on the highest earners.

Average home prices in California has reached $746,667 but it is difficult to compile an average price on such a large state and the average home in a DESIRABLE relatively safe neighborhood is much higher. The same could be said about New York as we have a vastly different landscape from the city to the north, and stating the average home price of $450,000 grossly understates what someone will pay if they live near the city or in a relatively safe desirable neighborhood.

Where is everyone moving?

  • Florida: 29,771 net inflow of high-earning households
  • Texas: 8,260 net inflow of high-earning households
  • North Carolina: 5,792 net inflow of high-earning households
  • South Carolina: 5,270 net inflow of high-earning households
  • Arizona: 4,365 net inflow of high-earning households

Americans are fleeing to red states with lower taxes and crime. Property prices in desirable neighborhoods may be high, but you have a much lower property tax. Florida and Texas continue to be the safe havens within America for both businesses and individuals. The average AGI for those moving to Florida from the aforementioned states is $907,013 while California’s new residents have an average AGI of $579,207. Consequently, lower earners have been forced to leave these states.

Inflation has already caused every American to spend more while living on less. High-income households are being punished under these socialistic eat the rich policies that invalidly claim they are responsible for the financial hardships of others. This trend will continue as Democrat-run states continue to adopt hardline policies that penalize monetary success.

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8.4.24: LT w/ Dr. Elliott: Buffett dumps, Tech Stocks danger? Silver/Gold drop=perfect time to invest, Pray!


Posted originally on Rumble By And We Know on: Aug 4, 2024 at 7:00 pm EST

Ep. 3427a – D’s Panic About The Economy, Try To Change Narrative, Gold Will Destroy The Fed


Posted originally on Rumble By X 22 Report on: Aug 14, 2024 at 8:15 pm EST

Emergency Rate Cuts Never Work


Posted Aug 7, 2024 By Martin Armstrong 

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COMMENT: Marty, it is always obvious why you were named Economist of the Decade, Hedge Fund Manager of the Year, and FX Analyst of the Year for the Swiss Peg break. As you said on the private blog;

“Let’s see but it appears that we could have a bear trap forming with a plunge into Monday but then a bounce. Monday would be a 3-day reaction plunge. There remains the risk of a bounce and then a more serious pattern forming in September.”

Your skills are renowned, but your motive is to help society. People need to know that governments and central bankers go to you because you do not charge them and have no conflicts of interest. You could keep Socrates, trade only for yourself, and make a fortune. But you care. While others claim the Fed should pull an emergency 0.25% base cut, only you point out that theory never works.

Many are concerned that you have no one to pass Socrates on, and you have toyed with the idea of going public for its survival. There are those among us who share your view and would help.

Please comment on that for society.

Paul

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REPLY: Look, 99% of the analysis you hear on TV is nonsense. These are people who repeat the same stupid theories that everyone else does, and not a single one ever takes the time to investigate whether their statements are true or false. Be it FOX or CNN; they only allow analysts who speak the same fake analysis. They would never dare to put me on TV because I would contradict what they say and all their guests.

This is typical of what the Daily Mail just published: “Economist issues dire warning about the US economy.”

He places the blame on the Fed for keeping its main interest rate at a two-decade high since 2022 in its zeal to stifle inflation.

Those hikes are now hitting the economy hard, he said, suggesting the Fed should have lowered rates earlier.

‘I really do worry that we may lose US economic exceptionalism because of a policy mistake,’ he told Bloomberg TV, as worldwide markets continued to plummet.

Here is the last Emergency Rate Cut, which was on March 4th, 2020, in the middle of that plunge. Three days later, the market made new lows and continued to fall. NOBODY ever seems to review past actions and simply ask, did that work?

YES, I can walk into any central bank. They all know (1) I refuse ever to accept any money from any government because there will ALWAYS be strings attached. (2) I am NOT allowed to invest in any shares, for I cannot have a CONFLICT OF INTEREST when I must comply with the laws of every country because we are GLOBAL – not domestic. Normally, when the government falsely charges you, they will charge you with something else like insider trading or tax fraud. I could not have any such personal account, and instead of saying I ran a clean shop, they said, “You are one smart MF” because they could not find anything despite advising on numerous takeovers. Even after the HSBC takeover of Republic National Bank, the former head of HSBC came to my London office to ask my opinion on buying that bank.

It is impossible to deal with all the different laws internationally. In some jurisdictions, if you asked me about IBM and I had just one share, I would be required by law to reveal everything I own to the client. You cannot be an international adviser with anything that can be seen as a CONFLICT OF INTEREST.

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They came to me in 1985 when they were creating G5 and the Euro. I was the first Western Analyst to be called into the Bank of China. I have had a front-row seat to the world. I have made more than I could spend. Money does not define a person; it defines character. Contracts are WORTHLESS, for if the person on the other is not trustworthy, the contract means nothing. I grew up when your word was your bond. Before recorded phone lines, you had to honor your word, or nobody would deal with you.

It is always difficult to choose a successor. I must also consider their character. I would never take in someone from the NY bankers or Bill Gates. Money is not the issue. I like the character of Elon Musk, but this is a very difficult proposition. I have traded billions and advised on trillions. Then you finish for the day and go out to dinner, and it costs you $300. Billions are just phone numbers, as we used to say. That kind of money is only suitable for bribing others to do what you want – i.e.Gates and Soros. It cannot be spent on living expenses. It is monopoly money. It’s not “real” at that point. Accomplishment makes a man – not money.

Americans Prepared for Lasting Inflation


Posted originally on Aug 6, 2024 By Martin Armstrong 

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Americans are preparing for a prolonged inflationary period, based on new data from the New York Fed. The New York Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Expectations found that Americans are still pessimistic about inflation waning, with no one now believing it is transitory. The median expectation is that inflation will remain at the 3% level in 2025.

The public does not anticipate inflation tapering off in a meaningful way in the years to come. The Federal Reserve is still honing in on that 2% target but the people have lost confidence in its ability to do so. Most Americans see inflation sitting at 2.9% in three years from now, up from the 2.4% estimate in January 2024. Even in five year’s time, the average consumer believes inflation will be above target at 2.6%.

The central bank believes they can meet that 2% target. Policymakers believe inflation will fall to 2.1% by 2025 before finally reaching 2% in 2026. Amid the sell off this week, Chicago Fed President Goolsbee came out and said that the central bank will simply “fix it” if the economy continues to deteriorate.

“The Fed’s job is very straightforward, maximize employment, stabilize prices and maintain financial stability. That’s what we’re going to do,” Goolsbee told CNBC. “We’re forward-looking about it. So if the conditions collectively start coming in like that on the through line, there’s deterioration on any of those parts, we’re going to fix it.”

Unfortunately, there is not much that the central bank can do to offset government’s suicidal fiscal policy. Remember, inflation was only 1.4% when Joe Biden took office – far beneath the Fed’s target. Inflation has risen as a direct result of fiscal policies under Bidenomics.

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The Fed was unable to prevent policies that ended America’s energy independence. They were unable to stop the supply chain issues exacerbated by the pandemic. They cannot alter the weak jobs reports that are propped up by multiplying the public sector, which only detracts from overall GDP. The Federal Reserve cannot maintain diplomatic relations with America’s trade partners or prevent the likes of Japan and China from selling off US government debt. The millions of immigrants now subsidized by the taxpayers cannot be curtailed by Jerome Powell or the FOMC. Worst of all, war is the most powerful driver of inflation. The Federal Reserve can do absolutely nothing to prevent America from steering NATO into three potential battles. Our Treasury Secretary says we can afford numerous wars. The $35 trillion in government debt rises every day and those in the central bank simply KNOW that the government has no intention on paying it off – how could they?

Americans are rightfully pessimistic about the future of the economy. All the talking heads insist that the economy is thriving under Bidenomics, but we the people are living in a different reality. This is what happens when people lose trust in the government entirely.

Yellen Under Fire for Encouraging Debanking Practices


Posted Aug 5, 2024 By Martin Armstrong 

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US Treasury Secretary and establishment puppet Janet Yellen has denied the advice of her own advisors to encourage debanking practices. Twenty Republican Attorney Generals have reached out to Yellen to remind her that she is not permitted to impede with state laws to weaponize her department against the Democrat’s political opponents.

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody declared US Treasury has “forsaken its statutory role and instead chosen to intervene on behalf of activists seeking to hijack the financial system for their political ends.”

This has been happening across the world, and instances of debanking for political purposes have reached new heights in 2024. In April, 15 AGs attempted to reach out to Bank of America over a “troubling financial pattern” of debanking Christian organizations. “Bank of America has a track record of de-banking religious organizations,” the letter states, followed by examples of banks suddenly freezing funds of Christians and churches without warning. Why? National security, of course.

Banks were instructed by government to search transactions for keywords such as “Trump” and “MAGA” to look for “domestic terrorists.” They asked banks to look for people who had purchased certain books such as religious texts. Purchased a gun? You’re a potential terrorist and threat to the government.

“The Treasury Department has once again forsaken its statutory role and instead chosen to intervene on behalf of activists seeking to hijack the financial system for their political ends. It is even more disappointing that the Treasury Department would use “national security” as cover for large banks’ abuse of power to achieve those ends,” the most recent letter claims.

All of our freedoms are revoked under the premise of “national security.” This would be akin to permitting the government to rob your house to protect you from intruders. There are state laws in place to protect the people but the federal government believes they can deny these protections in the name of national security. Florida’s HB 989, for example, is intended to protect consumers from discrimination. That law aims to protect gun manufacturers, the fossil fuel sector, religious organizations, and others who do not adhere with the BUILD BACK BETTER agenda from being denied the right to operate in America’s financial system. “No consumer or business should be denied services based on political beliefs or religious views or because of some arbitrary social credit score derived from ideological agendas,” the AGs added in their latest letter.

Again, this is a worldwide phenomenon of governments weaponizing banking institutions. The UN-backed Net-Zero Banking Alliance aims to jeopardize anyone not adhering to the climate change agenda financially. Over 144 banks have signed on board. I reported last year that a bullion dealer I personally know suddenly had his credit lines revoked. Governments genuinely believe the people are underpaying taxes by at least 35%. They want to eliminate all financial hedges against government and financially cripple those who do not abide by the agenda.

Yet another reason why all governments must go digital. CBDCs will permit governments not only to track every sale and purchase, but it will give them the POWER to prevent purchases instantaneously.

The Greatest Crash of the Century?


Posted originally on Aug 3, 2024 By Martin Armstrong 

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For all the emails coming in: I am finishing up this report this weekend

The Real Risk Ahead

Digital Ruble 2025


Posted originally on Aug 1, 2024 By Martin Armstrong |  

Russia has announced that it will implement a digital ruble by next July. Moscow will begin using cryptocurrency for some foreign transactions to bypass sanctions and SWIFT. As of November 2024, Russia will permit crypto mining, so long as it is carried out under the watchful eye of the government.

The Bank of Russia will oversee crypto mining and overriding capabilities. The Russian government, alongside the central bank, will select mining pool participants and protocols. Gone are the days when anyone could seemingly anonymously mine crypto, as Russia is one of many nations that will begin to require complete government oversight.

Beginning on September 1, Moscow will attempt to use crypto for foreign settlements while creating a new electronic platform through the National Payment System (NPS) within the EPR framework. The central bank is already stating that it must monitor activities to “identify risks” relating to national security and terrorism. This is precisely why other nations will also begin closely examining crypto transactions to ensure that the government has the upper hand.

As for the digital ruble, all operations will go through the Russian central bank. All of the CBDC will be stored through the central bank, which they ensure is for citizens’ safety. Each digital ruble will carry a unique code, similar to a banknote, and people may transfer rubles from one digital wallet to another – all under the watchful eye of government. The decree for the digital ruble was signed into law last August, but authorities believe the average person will begin using it by 2025.

Bank of Russia head, Elvira Nabiullina, claims the digital ruble will be optional. “If they want – they’ll use it, if they don’t – they won’t. No one is forcing anybody to use the digital ruble,” Nabiullina said. Yet, what happens when the seller or buyer is only accepting digital rubles? There is some vague language about digital rubles having codes for specific usage to deter crime. Governments want control and there is no better way to control the people than usurping the money supply and what can be considered “money.”

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Removing Russia from SWIFT prompted these actions. “Over 30 regulators are currently working on national digital currencies,” Olga Skorobogatova, the first deputy chairwoman of the Bank of Russia, reported. “I think that this speed, with which the regulators have delved into this field, speaks volumes about the fact that, in 5-7 years, several countries surely will step forward with their own national digital currencies. Then, we can discuss the questions of direct integration. In that case, we no longer need SWIFT, since these are different technological interactions.”

The move to CBDC was an inevitable next step. The International Monetary Fund developed a coin long ago and other nations have been working alongside their central banks for years. It will be easy for Moscow to force its citizens and businesses to make the switch as they’ve already been removed from SWIFT and have had their foreign assets frozen for simply residing in the wrong nation. There is a reasonable fear that their money is not safe.

The year 2025, one year away, will bring about the rise of countless CBDC. The ultimate goal is to create one centralized currency. We saw that it epically failed in Europe as those nations are now under the control of the One World European government, the unelected officials in Brussels who silence their own member states from dissenting. Yet to begin, nations will begin pushing for the use of digital currency before outright canceling “hard money” under the premise that they are protecting their citizens. In all actuality, the elite believes all the money in circulation belongs to them, and the only way to guarantee maximum taxation is to transition the people to a controllable, non-tangible monetary system.

$2.4 Billion Daily – Servicing the US National Debt


Posted orriginally on Aug 1, 2024 By Martin Armstrong 

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Serving debt is the largest cost of Washington’s debt crisis; America currently spends $2.4 billion in daily interest fees alone. The debt and spending simply cannot keep up with what America is bringing in. The federal govt spent $658 billion on interest fees in 2023, a 38% jump from the $476 billion in servicing debt in 2022. That’s 2.4% of the entire national GDP spent on interest expenditures alone.

The Congressional Budget Office believes the US defense expenditures will reach $870 billion this year to put into perspective how wasteful these interest payments have become. The CBO also believes interest costs will spike to $892 billion by year-end, rising to $12.9 trillion by 2034. The previous high came in during 1996 at $468 billion.

Interest is projected this year to be the second-largest federal program — it means your tax dollars are going to interest instead of going to everything else,” said Marc Goldwein, senior policy director at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a bipartisan think tank. So these offices believe the US will accumulate, because they won’t try to pay it off, a 20.3% in federal revenue costs for this debt by 2025.

The Peter G. Peterson Foundation broke the projected cost post 2032 to be $38,600 per American citizen. Not only is the US unable to pay this debt but those in government continue to spend TRILLIONS of dollars on programs that have not benefitted the people. This is one of the reasons that the US government is looking at a complete overhaul by the time we reach 2032 for it can not leave it for the next generation without consequences.