Capital gains tax rates benefiting wealthy feed growing gap between rich and poor

The K Street office of Mark Bloomfield, president of the American Council for Capital Formation, is full of knickknacks collected in three decades of lobbying for cutting the capital gains tax.

The coffee table has campaign buttons that read "Capital Gains = Better Jobs." One wall displays a blown-up cartoon retracing the steps that led President Jimmy Carter to reluctantly sign a cut in the capital gains tax rate. On a shelf sits a framed, handwritten note from President George W. Bush in December 2003 that says: "Dear Mark, I got your treatise on taxes — many thanks. I will look it over with keen interest. Merry Christmas."

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David Nakamura 12 Sep, 2011

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