Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Burchett: Eliminate capital gains tax on home sales

Tennessee GOP Rep. Tim Burchett is proposing that Congress eliminate the capital gains tax on home sales, arguing the money the IRS takes from sellers is "redundant" and that allowing them to keep and reinvest it would help stimulate the U.S. economy. "I'm going to prepare some legislation to take away the capital gains tax on a piece of property, and you know, it's just redundant," he said on a recent John Solomon Reports podcast. "When you tax people less, they don't stick it in a doggone pillow case under their bed. They reinvest it. They put it in a bank, and that bank loans it out to other people, or they buy something, buy an automobile, and under Trump's plan, American automobiles, the reduction is there."

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Private Equity firms are going to love this.

By the way, taxes pay for America.

They could be helping make a much better America, like FDR attempted to do.

Or they can be funneled into the bank accounts of the wealthy and MIC, like republicans have been doing for the last 4 decades.

Travel the world a little.

Other countries have continued to progress while America is stuck in the 70s.

#1 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-03-17 01:52 PM

... would help stimulate the U.S. economy ...

But Pres Trump has said the economy is doing great and does not a stimulus.

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-03-17 02:22 PM

Money Grubbers always find a way to Money Grub.

#3 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-03-18 10:09 AM

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