March 20, 2012

SURE, IT'S SIMPLER, BUT WHAT'S WRONG WITH INCOME?:

House GOP budget chief aims at tax code (Jeanne Sahadi and Deirdre Walsh, March 19, 2012, CNNMoney)

House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, the lead writer on the budget, and his caucus will call for a reduction in individual tax rates and brackets. Instead of today's six brackets, with rates from 10% to 35%, they are calling for just two -- 10% and 25%. It's not clear how much income would fall under each bracket. [...]

It was not immediately clear whether the House GOP plans to replace that forecasted revenue, but it seems unlikely since it is proposing to keep revenues as a share of the economy on par with the 40-year average of 18.1% of the economy's GDP.

Since the financial crisis in 2008, revenues as a share of GDP have hit 60-year lows, coming in at around 15%. 

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