The High-Income Rate Reductions: The Neglected Stepchild of the Bush Tax Cuts

AEI Tax Policy Outlook, 2010, No. 3

8 Pages Posted: 23 Feb 2013

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Alan D. Viard

American Enterprise Institute

Date Written: September 1, 2010

Abstract

Congress is considering allowing the Bush tax cuts' rate reductions for high-income households to expire at the end of 2010 while providing a deficit-financed extension of the middle-class portion of the tax cuts. This combination would damage economic growth by hiking marginal tax rates on saving and investment while swelling the budget deficit. The vulnerable state of the high-income rate reductions is largely due to the failure of supporters of the Bush tax cuts to make the economic-growth case for these reductions.

Suggested Citation

Viard, Alan D., The High-Income Rate Reductions: The Neglected Stepchild of the Bush Tax Cuts (September 1, 2010). AEI Tax Policy Outlook, 2010, No. 3, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2221930

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