Word: investments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Great countries are built by people who take chances and have the incentive to invest in something unusual. There is no way that people will take big risks if they have to pay high taxes on fictitious, inflated profits. We ought to eliminate capital gains taxes or index them, that is, reduce those taxes to take account of inflation. As it is, well over half of the capital gains taxes are paid by people who have incomes under $50,000. We ought to cut maximum taxes on income from 70% to 50%. That would reduce tax collections by only...