{"id":6417,"date":"2007-08-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-funds-arent-worried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2007\/hedge-funds-arent-worried.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Aren&#8217;t Worried"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"times\">  Wall Street Journal- The private-equity firm paid $3.7 million for lobbying in the first half of this year &#8212; 15 times what it paid in all of last year. About half represents bills owed from 2006,  representatives say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"times\">  Democrats weigh doubts about proposals to raise taxes on private equity and hedge funds. Conservative &#8220;Blue Dogs&#8221; form task force to decide; black caucus members argue funds benefit inner cities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"times\">  Meanwhile, a survey of 400 hedge funds by accounting firm Rothstein Kass shows most don&#8217;t fear tax increases. Only a quarter thinks Congress will raise tax on managers&#8217; &#8220;carried interest&#8221; to the  personal income-tax rate from 15% capital-gains rate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"times\">  If the rate is raised, more than 70% of funds would seek other ways to cut tax bills. None saw a higher tax as a problem if they went public.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&amp;ct=us\/2-0&amp;fd=R&amp;url=http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB118669962167093581.html%3Fmod%3Dgooglenews_wsj&amp;cid=1118669765&amp;ei=MDa8Rt_iDIqGqwOw1_mLDw\">ReadComplete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wall Street Journal- The private-equity firm paid $3.7 million for lobbying in the first half of this year &#8212; 15 times what it paid in all of last year. About half represents bills owed from 2006, representatives say. Democrats weigh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}