Trump floats a “gold card” to grant US residency to wealthy foreigners

New Zealand Just Made It Easier to Get a Golden Visa​



5 million New Zealand dollars ($2.8 million) over three years into businesses or managed funds, and the visa holder has to spend just 21 days in the country. The latter requires a minimum investment of 10 million New Zealand dollars ($5.7 million) over five years into bonds, stocks, new property development, or existing commercial and industrial property. Those with this visa have to spend at least 105 days in New Zealand, but that term can be reduced by investing more money than the minimum.

 


Absolutely brilliant!

A million gold cards would indeed produce $5T plus the taxes they’d pay on their incomes and investments! Rest assured, there’ll be a firestorm about bringing in these affluent while pushing the gangbangers out the back door.
"The tax they'd pay on their incomes and investments..." What planet are you living on? :laugh:

Let's see Elon's tax returns from the last ten years.
 
"The tax they'd pay on their incomes and investments..." What planet are you living on? :laugh:

Let's see Elon's tax returns from the last ten years.
In 2024, about 1 out of 180 American taxpayers will make $1 million or more of total income, based on a broad definition of income used by the forecasters.

Altogether, these million-dollar earners will earn about 15% of the nation’s income next year. But they will pay 39% of all federal income taxes.

The million-dollar earners will pay an average federal income tax rate that is 3.5 times higher than the other 99.4% of Americans.

 
In 2024, about 1 out of 180 American taxpayers will make $1 million or more of total income, based on a broad definition of income used by the forecasters.

Altogether, these million-dollar earners will earn about 15% of the nation’s income next year. But they will pay 39% of all federal income taxes.

The million-dollar earners will pay an average federal income tax rate that is 3.5 times higher than the other 99.4% of Americans.

"It’s also worth noting that Musk’s 2017 federal tax, while still substantial, was comparatively lower than in the previous year. To elaborate, he reported a total taxable income of $27,558,124 and paid $1,587,784 in taxes in 2016. This stark comparison is primarily due to the fact that in 2016, he was paid a wage from SpaceX and Tesla, whereas in 2017 his income was derived from capital gains."

That amounts to a tax rate of 5.8%. Have you checked your tax rate lately?

 
"It’s also worth noting that Musk’s 2017 federal tax, while still substantial, was comparatively lower than in the previous year. To elaborate, he reported a total taxable income of $27,558,124 and paid $1,587,784 in taxes in 2016. This stark comparison is primarily due to the fact that in 2016, he was paid a wage from SpaceX and Tesla, whereas in 2017 his income was derived from capital gains."

That amounts to a tax rate of 5.8%. Have you checked your tax rate lately?

48% of Americans paid ZERO in income tax!
 
A million times smarter than a wealth tax on millionaires like the likes of AOC, Pocahantas, and Bernie Sanders want to impose on the wealthy...
You must love the wealthiest man in world firing people depending on weekly paycheck. Let them eat cake, eh?
 
48% of Americans includes children, retired people, poor people... people who don't have an income.
Man, I do LOVE that way you take the steam out of our sheet wearing flunky's pointy hood! Does that MAGA/Alt-Right parrot actually believe that all the negative aspects of this wealth shift by his gods will NOT negatively affect him? Does he think those troll checks will be sufficient? Old Vole and his ilk prove P.T. Barnum right every day God sends.
 
You must love the wealthiest man in world firing people depending on weekly paycheck. Let them eat cake, eh?
First, Marie Antonette never said that line, it's a fiction.

Second, people who aren't doing productive work--like you--to justify their weekly paycheck should be fired. No one is entitled to a paycheck just because they show up.
 
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