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How Romney’s Tax Plan Could Raise Taxes on 95% of the Country
The Romney plan begins by cutting marginal rates by 20 percent and eliminating the estate tax and Alternative Minimum Tax, which would decrease federal tax revenue by $360 billion by 2015. A new report from the Tax Policy Center and the Brookings Institution considered what would happen if Romney eliminated tax expenditures to make his plan revenue-neutral, so that it wouldn’t blow an enormous hole in our budget. Here’s what they found: The revenue-neutral Romney plan would raise taxes on a typical family by more than $600. A household making between half-a-million and $1 million would get a tax cut equal to almost twice the disposable income of the poorest 20 percent.
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Yeesh, when America already has the world’s luckiest billionaires.
Source: The Atlantic
Someone please explain to me the reasoning behind this. Please.
Revenue neutral, eh.
This is what bothers me. You do percentage comparisons, and the top tax bracket has been making out like bandits the...