民主党参议员阻止共和党对大学捐赠基金征收 35% 税的法案

民主党参议员阻止共和党对大学捐赠基金征收 35% 税的法案
Dem Senator Blocks GOP Bill For 35% Tax On University Endowments

原始链接: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/dem-senator-blocks-gop-bill-35-tax-university-endowments

一位共和党参议员最近提出了一项新法案，旨在对大型大学捐赠基金征收 35% 的税，原因是担心其中一些机构如何处理大量以前未触及的资源。该提议是在几起备受瞩目的案件之后提出的，这些案件中富裕的大学被指控通过捐赠收入提供的慷慨宣传“DEI”或“唤醒”议程等可疑的意识形态。他的提案由俄亥俄州参议员 J.D. 万斯提出，目前正在讨论是否将其纳入即将采取的立法行动。然而，在最初的讨论中，民主党人批评该计划没有解决与美国税法中企业漏洞相关的更大问题。捐赠税的批评者认为，它将阻碍慈善捐赠并阻碍基本的教育计划，而支持者则认为，它可以通过将提供公共服务的负担从政府转移到慈善事业来帮助减少社区之间和社区内部的不平等。尽管有其优点和缺点，围绕关键政策决定的政治僵局常常阻碍达成共识的进展。最终，任何改革如果希望实现有意义的变革，就必须在社会需求与经济、法律和宪法约束之间取得平衡。

In the wake of various recent scandals at 'elite' universities, attention has turned to their massive, largely untaxed endowments.

On Thursday morning Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) introduced a bill which would tax the largest university endowments at 35%.

"The endowments at Penn, Harvard & MIT have a combined $95B+ in assets - yet only pay a 1.4% tax rate on net investment income," Vance posted on X. "Then they use these funds to push DEI and woke insanity."

"My bill would tax the largest endowments at 35% - it's going to the Senate floor right now."

Vance then tried to pass the bill by unanimous consent, only to be blocked by Democrat Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, who suggested that lawmakers should instead look at the bill before passing it (oh?), and then slammed billionaire tax loopholes created by Congress in the first place.

As journalist Greg Price notes above, "Democrats finally found billions of dollars that they don't wish to tax."

民主党参议员阻止共和党对大学捐赠基金征收 35% 税的法案 Dem Senator Blocks GOP Bill For 35% Tax On University Endowments

民主党参议员阻止共和党对大学捐赠基金征收 35% 税的法案
Dem Senator Blocks GOP Bill For 35% Tax On University Endowments