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Inflation: Comparing Trump and Biden...

Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there's one potentially glaring problem for them, as illustrated by our friends at Unleash Prosperity... Biden Versus Trump on Inflation

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August 17, 2026 • 04:40 PM
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Trump Should Index the Capital Gains Tax for Inflation
By Stephen Moore
Tuesday, July 15 2025
President Donald Trump should follow up on his historic "big, beautiful" tax bill with an extra booster shot for the economy by immediately indexing the capital gains taxes for inflation. There is a reasonable chance he can do this without having to go through Congress. And our sources in the administration tell us Trump is interested in doing just that. The tax on inflationary gains is patently unfair. Consider a middle-class investor who bought a stock at the start of the Biden presidency for $10,000 and sold it off four years later at a valuation of $12,200. The investor would pay…
 
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