The KiDS Legacy Act
Keep investments Diversified with Silver, and Gold too

The same gain. A bigger bill.

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Dear Member of Congress,

I am writing as one of your constituents to ask you to revive and support the KiDS Legacy Act — Keep Investments Diversified with Silver, and Gold too — the sound-money tax fairness proposal built on H.R. 8279, the Monetary Metals Tax Neutrality Act.

Today, the federal tax code treats gold and silver savers unfairly. A worker who sells stock may pay a long-term capital gains rate of up to 20%. A worker who realizes the same gain in gold or silver coins pays up to 28%, because metals are classified as "collectibles" — the same category as art and rare wines. That classification misses something basic: many of these coins are actual United States currency, minted by the U.S. Mint with a face value in dollars — not beanie babies, not trinkets. Many states also charge sales tax on the purchase itself. The little guy who saves in real money pays more, twice, than the Wall Street investor who never touches it.

This is not about rich collectors. It is about fairness for average Americans: the nurse who buys an ounce a month, the grandfather putting junk silver away for the grandkids, the young family diversifying a small savings. Inflation is caused by only two things — monetary policy or fiscal policy — and neither one is controlled by the forgotten man. Ordinary families buy precious metals to protect their purchasing power from the inflation those policies create. Taxing that protection at a punitive rate taxes thrift itself.

The KiDS Legacy Act would end the double penalty: no federal capital gains recognition on qualifying gold, silver, platinum, and palladium bullion — coins, rounds, and bars up to 10 ounces, valued primarily for metal content. Independent simulations put the ten-year cost at roughly $11 billion — about three one-hundredths of one percent of projected federal revenue — while rewarding exactly the kind of family saving we say we want more of.

I ask you to:
1. Revive and co-sponsor the KiDS Legacy Act language in the current Congress.
2. Ask the Joint Committee on Taxation to score it honestly, with the same dynamic analysis given to every other asset class.
3. End the "collectibles" classification for monetary metals.

Fair is fair. Stocks, bonds, and real estate get rational treatment under the tax code. Hard-working families who choose gold and silver deserve the same.

Respectfully,