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HAB911

(8,811 posts)
Fri Nov 3, 2017, 08:13 AM Nov 2017

How a Tax Cut Turns Into a Tax Increase

House Republicans today put forward a plan to fundamentally revamp the tax code and provide large tax breaks to the highest income Americans through rate cuts on business income and repeal of the estate tax. However, House Republicans have also claimed that the plan provides significant tax breaks to middle-income families. It turns out, though, that those tax breaks for the middle are small as compared to what’s offered to the top, and disappearing.

In rolling out their plan, House Republicans focused on an example family — a married couple making $59,000 per year and with two kids. They said that family would get a tax cut of over $1,182 in 2018 (compared to what they paid in 2017). But, what they didn’t say is that a family making $59,000 would face a tax increase by 2024 relative to current law, with the tax increase potentially rising to $500 by 2027. This is even as tax cuts for those at the top are maintained.

The figure below shows the tax change under the House plan by year relative to current law. It starts with a tax cut of $1,106 in 2018. (This is a bit less than the figure advertised by the House Republicans since this compares apples to apples: their 2018 plan as compared to 2018 current law, as opposed to comparing the plan in 2018 to 2017 liability like the House Republicans did.) But, that tax cut dissipates over time and finally reverses.

https://medium.com/@kamin_83016/how-a-tax-cut-turns-into-a-tax-increase-960c32d1ba82

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How a Tax Cut Turns Into a Tax Increase (Original Post) HAB911 Nov 2017 OP
Bush's tax cuts did the exact same thing mercuryblues Nov 2017 #1
Blame the Dms if they take hold, claim giving a new tax cut if they win. Thor_MN Nov 2017 #2

mercuryblues

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1. Bush's tax cuts did the exact same thing
Fri Nov 3, 2017, 08:20 AM
Nov 2017

The wealthy kept their cuts, while the middle & lower classes saw increases in 2008. That gave us the tea party. It is apparently obvious that they always expire in a presidential election year.

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