Joe Biden’s top economic adviser said there was no evidence that raising capital gains taxes would hurt long-term investment in the US economy, as the White House gears up for a months-long political fight over its plans to impose higher levies on the wealthy to fund a massive increase in spending.
Speaking to reporters at the White House on Monday, Brian Deese, director of the National Economic Council, said that there had been “no correlation” between capital gains tax rates and investment or overall economic growth over the past 30 or 40 years.
“Across a wide body of academic and empirical evidence, there is no evidence of a significant impact of capital gains rates on the level of long-term investment in the economy,” Deese said.
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