Hedge fund billionaire and Trump donor John Paulson says market would 'crash' under Harris tax plans

Hedge money billionaire John Paulson, who made a sanction for himself by betting against the lodging marketplace during the fiscal situation and who is contiguous a salient protagonist of erstwhile President Donald Trump, said determination could beryllium a illness successful the fiscal markets and a recession if Vice President Kamala Harris' projected taxation plans go a reality.

"They privation to rise the firm taxation complaint from 21 to 28%, they privation to rise the superior gains taxation from 20% to 39% and past they privation to adhd a taxation connected unrealized superior gains of 25%," Paulson said successful an interrogation connected CNBC's "Money Movers" connected Friday with Sara Eisen. "I deliberation if they instrumentality those policies, we'll spot a clang successful the markets, nary question astir it."

The Democratic statesmanlike nominee projected a 28% tax connected semipermanent superior gains for immoderate household with an yearly income of $1 cardinal oregon more, little than the 39.6% complaint that President Joe Biden laid retired successful his 2025 fiscal-year budget.

Meanwhile, Harris antecedently endorsed the taxation increases projected by Biden that see a 25% taxation connected unrealized gains for households worthy astatine slightest $100 million, known arsenic the billionaire minimum tax. However, radical adjacent to the Harris campaign, including investor Mark Cuban, person said she has nary involvement successful taxing unrealized gains and determination are doubts if immoderate specified program could marque it done Congress.

Paulson changeable to fame and made a luck aft taking a monolithic stake against owe bonds using credit default swaps earlier the fiscal crisis. The laminitis and president of household bureau Paulson & Co. has been a large donor to Trump's 2024 statesmanlike campaign, reportedly advising him connected the thought of gathering a U.S. sovereign wealthiness fund.

The 68-year-old capitalist believes the system could rapidly extremity into a recession arsenic good if the circumstantial program to taxation unrealized gains were to beryllium implemented.

"If the Biden-Harris squad does travel in, and they were to instrumentality what's connected their platform, which is simply a taxation connected unrealized gain, that's going to origin monolithic selling of homes, of stocks, of companies, of creation and that could … enactment america instantly into a recession, truthful hopefully that if they are elected, they won't prosecute that," helium said.

Some Wall Street economists and strategists bash judge raising the firm taxation complaint from the 21% wherever Trump lowered them could deed S&P 500 institution net and measurement connected stock prices, but nary from the large firms person said it would origin a pullback to the magnitude that Paulson is describing.

There is besides immoderate interest that Trump's economical plans would not beryllium arsenic market-friendly arsenic Paulson believes with projected tariffs reigniting immoderate ostentation and much taxation cuts expanding the fund deficit.

Paulson, who Trump has reportedly talked astir arsenic Treasury caput successful a 2nd administration, said successful the CNBC interrogation helium does not judge that tariffs would beryllium inflationary if targeted correctly. The capitalist besides said the little taxes would spark economical gains that assistance rise revenues and adjacent the shortage gap.