l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 1 Bill Clinton, President Barack Obama, and liberal think tanks have claimed
Mitt Romney's plan to cut tax rates across the board by 20 percent is bad
arithmetic, but a Princeton economics professor, Harvey Rosen, examined
Romney's proposals in a paper and concluded Romney's plan would work. The
economy would have to grow by 3 percentage points more over the term of his
plan than it would have without his plan.
Liberals, who often do not understand how the economy works let alone how to
expand the economic pie, failed to work in their assumptions that the
purpose of Romney's tax cuts is to actually grow the economy, which would
make people more prosperous. And as the economy grows and more people get
jobs, the government would get more tax dollars.
The Tax Policy Center, which is affiliated with the center-left Brookings
Institution and Urban Institute, analyzed Romney's tax plan assuming there
would be zero economic growth. The lead analyst in the Tax Policy Center's
study was a former Obama administration official.
"At the same time, the TPC model assumes that regardless of the tax rate,
people work the
same amount, save the same amount, and invest the same amount," Rosen wrote
in his paper. "Thus, changes in the tax code have no effect on the amount of
before-tax income."
And, as The Weekly Standard pointed out, there are "at least three critical
flaws" with the the TPC study:
(1) it assumes pro-growth tax reform can't actually produce economic
growth, (2) it assumes two tax expenditures worth $45 billion per year are
not 'on the table', and (3) it assumes tax reform must pay for repealing
Obamacare's tax hikes, rather than assuming that the repeal of Obamacare's
spending will pay for repealing the tax hikes.
If these assumptions are taken away, Romney's plan becomes more feasible.
Rosen also wrote that "it seems odd to assume away possible increases in
incomes associated with a
given tax reform proposal when its explicit goal is to enhance growth."
"Rather, a more sensible approach is to consider alternative assumptions
about how tax reform might affect the size of the economy, and see how they
affect the substantive conclusions," Rosen wrote.
Rosen concluded that if the economy grew, Romney's numbers would add up and
that growth rate needed to make Romney's numbers add up was "not impossible.
" | d*****s
发帖数: 5610 | 2 这种讨论每4年就来一次，从里根开始的降税，一直到小布什的降税，想降税的哪个不
是天花乱坠的说的比唱的还好听，然后一年比一年债务高，然后一次又一次的再来说降
税能减低债务，能平衡预算,反正选民都是傻子。
要我来说，也别那么麻烦了，何必每4年解释一次，还不如一次降税到0，一劳永逸，能
达到最大的促进经济发展。 | B**W
发帖数: 2273 | 3 hehe, only stupids listen to those stupid economists.
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【在 l****z 的大作中提到】
: Bill Clinton, President Barack Obama, and liberal think tanks have claimed
: Mitt Romney's plan to cut tax rates across the board by 20 percent is bad
: arithmetic, but a Princeton economics professor, Harvey Rosen, examined
: Romney's proposals in a paper and concluded Romney's plan would work. The
: economy would have to grow by 3 percentage points more over the term of his
: plan than it would have without his plan.
: Liberals, who often do not understand how the economy works let alone how to
: expand the economic pie, failed to work in their assumptions that the
: purpose of Romney's tax cuts is to actually grow the economy, which would
: make people more prosperous. And as the economy grows and more people get
| T*R
发帖数: 36302 | 4 This assumption is more realistic than the assumption that economy has 3%+
growth.
(1) it assumes pro-growth tax reform can't actually produce economic
growth, ( | P*********0
发帖数: 4321 | 5 Bullshit. Taxcut has been in place for more than a decade. What did we get?
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【在 l****z 的大作中提到】
: Bill Clinton, President Barack Obama, and liberal think tanks have claimed
: Mitt Romney's plan to cut tax rates across the board by 20 percent is bad
: arithmetic, but a Princeton economics professor, Harvey Rosen, examined
: Romney's proposals in a paper and concluded Romney's plan would work. The
: economy would have to grow by 3 percentage points more over the term of his
: plan than it would have without his plan.
: Liberals, who often do not understand how the economy works let alone how to
: expand the economic pie, failed to work in their assumptions that the
: purpose of Romney's tax cuts is to actually grow the economy, which would
: make people more prosperous. And as the economy grows and more people get
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