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How should distributional tables be interpreted?

December 20, 2015 by tpcwebsite

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How should distributional tables be interpreted?

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Distributional tables provide important and useful information, but keep six key questions in mind to correctly interpret the results.

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How do financing methods affect the distributional analyses of tax cuts?

December 20, 2015 by tpcwebsite

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How do financing methods affect the distributional analyses of tax cuts?

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Tax cuts are financed through reductions in current outlays or higher government debt that will eventually have to be repaid. Distributional analyses omit this information as well as the effects of tax increases on current outlays and debt.

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On what do economists agree and disagree about the effects of taxes on economic growth?

December 20, 2015 by tpcwebsite

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On what do economists agree and disagree about the effects of taxes on economic growth?

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Economists generally agree that people and businesses respond to taxes and that large tax changes can move the economy. But economists have not (and probably cannot) pin down exactly how the economy works and how responsive people and businesses are to policy changes. As a result, economists often disagree about what models and parameters to use to analyze tax policies. Those scientific disagreements are sometimes amplified by value judgments about appropriate policy.

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