Example sentences for: capital-gains

How can you use “capital-gains” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Andrew Sullivan, former editor of the New Republic and author/editor of a new book about gay marriage, is debating that subject with David Frum of the Weekly Standard . And John Goodman, not Roseanne's TV husband but the president of the National Center for Policy Analysis, is exchanging words with the editor of Slate over the rights and wrongs of a capital-gains tax cut.

  • In 1997, Clinton drove dozens of nails into the coffin: The bill he signed created six different capital-gains rates, two kinds of IRAs, and so on.

  • (Occasionally, of course, a dialogue serves to reveal the utter superiority of one side of the argument, as in the recent discussion of the capital-gains tax.)

  • Though Rubin has bucked Wall Street by opposing a capital-gains tax cut, he comes from Wall Street, and most of his closest friends and advisers are Wall Streeters, and he generally heeds the street.

  • A centerpiece of both tax cuts is a severe trimming of the capital-gains tax, which seems like a very odd decision at a time when short-term investing is on the rise and companies are having absolutely no trouble raising capital.


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