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Steve Bannon
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Steve Bannon
2018/09/16
Your contact was sent to Kurz directly
12:58:47 pm
Today is the 10th anniversary of the Lehman bankruptcy. Returns if you bought stocks
at the close that day and held to today...
JP Morgan: +285%
S&P 500: +198%
Wells Fargo: +126%
Goldman Sachs: +93%
Morgan Stanley: +75%
Bank of America: +27%
Citigroup: -51% https://t.co/hPB922a7z1
Tech stock returns since the Lehman bankruptcy 10 years ago today...
Netflix: +8,978%
Nvidia: +3,112%
Amazon: +2,447%
Apple: +1,160%
Salesforce: +1,050%
Adobe: +621%
Microsoft: +443%
Google: +443%
S&P: +198%
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Steve Bannon
And wages flat
SB
08:28:46 pm
Yup
08:55:24 pm
Your tax idea doesnt work. Less than 50k. 75b. Between 50k and 1001 2006
09:52:01 pm
Steve Bannon
Just means I need to find $200???
SB
10:16:50 pm
275, and chats. 30 % of the total personal. .
11:23:39 pm
23 % sorry .
11:23:59 pm
Its a lot .
11:24:03 pm
Steve Bannon
Yes it's an incredible amount-- but doable
SB
11:24:36 pm
its an easy calculation. Everyone above 100, would have to increase their taxes. By
25% of current amount. . not likely
11:26:44 pm
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More difficult now as the tax rates were reduced. So the 25 % is more difficult. ie. If I
reduce your tax due from 100 to 50 . I've reduced it by 50 %. . however. Just to
bring it back to where it was I now hav to increase it by 100%. . ie from 50 to
100.
Math is tricky
11:29:33 pm
Steve Bannon
What about taxes on capital---transaction ; foreign investment all of it
SB
11:55:50 pin
Let me think, but in perspective it is almost half to he minimal defense budget. Its a
big fucking number
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Steve Bannon
I get that --- but it's somewhere
SB
11:58:02 pm
An indexing capital gains. Will make it harder
11:58:45 pm
2018/09/17
You can do less than 50. K . No taxes . And take it from the top
12:00:10 am
Or go to a flat tax above a certain amount of income. . NO deductions. Only public
charities . No DAFs. No private foundations. . the elites would scream. But it
works. No mortgage. etc.
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The tax bill gave it away . You can make it sound fair. Ex. Every taxpayer. Above X.
Pays 25
12:03:37 am
you can rally do your taxes on a postcard.
12:04:13 am
The key is. no deductions. For anything. !! trust me
12:04:50 am
Steve Bannon
Got it
SB
12:15:29 am
Even making borrowing against assets taxable
12:29:21 am
Otherwise the guys whose stock has gone up 100 x. , just borrow against it. Get the
interest deduction , and the system gets no tax
12:29:57 am
Reminder. , I m vicious
12:30:16 am
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Steve Bannon
Have to be
SB
12:34:58 am
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