New York — Charles Myers was sitting in a first-class seat on a flight from New York to Dallas when his phone started blowing up on Thursday. News had just broken that the wealthiest Americans could soon face a tax rate as high as 43.4% on gains from their investments.

The chair of Signum Global Advisors wasn’t thrilled...

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