Apr 12, 2011 ... The theory goes like this: Lower tax rates will encourage more investment, which  in turn will mean more jobs and greater prosperity—so much so that tax ..... And  we do not measure the economic damage done by shocks, such as losing a job,  which means not only loss of income and depletion of savings, ...
Nov 24, 2015 ... Conservatives want to go back to the nuclear Leave It to Beaver family and what  not while liberals like to talk about those 90-percent tax rates that we owe ... or  not you can raise the amount collected is really immaterial here, the only thing  that matters is what has happened (particularly when tax rates were ...
The median percentage of benefit income owed as income tax by beneficiary  families will rise from 1 percent to 5 percent over that period. If Congress does not  adjust income tax brackets upward to approximate the historical ratio of taxes to  national income, the proportion of benefit income owed as income tax will exceed  ...
May 5, 2012 ... Do high tax rates on "rich people" create a lazy population in which no one has  an incentive to work hard? And what about the Republican mantra that cutting  taxes is always good for the economy, while raising taxes is always bad? Thanks  to the Tax Foundation and other sources, we've analyzed tax rates ...
The estate tax raised $8.5 billion in 2012 — less than 1% of the $1.2 trillion  inherited that year. Only 1 out of every 700 ... The vast majority of estates — 99.9 % — do not pay federal estate taxes. While the top estate tax ... We need a strong  estate tax to help restore the promise of America to everyone. Repealing the  estate tax ...
We do not want to raise anybody's tax rates. That's never been on the table.