1. Tax Cuts
A tax cut is often thought of as the magical solution to our economic problems, but a tax cut is not always what it seems. ... The Bush tax plan would reduce the average statutory marginal tax rate (that is, the average tax rate applying to the last dollar earned in the economy) by roughly three percentage points relative to the current distribution of tax rates. ... First, for any given tax, the current tax rate must be beyond the point of maximum revenue. ... For the payroll tax cut to succeed, people must work significantly more when their real after-tax wages rise, because only then could ...
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