Presently, many insurance companies and other financial institutions sell whole life insurance policies and variable universal life insurance policies mainly to rich individuals. What makes these life insurance policies
very attractive to the rich who are at a very high effective income tax
rate is that the income earned from the investments in these life insurance policies
grow on a tax deferred basis. So clearly, the main economic value of
these life insurance policies comes from the tax loophole embedded in them.
My recommendation here is that the income earned from these life insurance policies invested
in by either high income or high asset individuals will be currently
taxable either to the individual investing in the life insurance policy or to the life insurance company selling the life insurance policy. I'll leave it to the US Congress as to
what constitutes a high income and high asset value for individuals.
