Fiscal Policy: Felix Salmon Asks a Question

How Obama wants to cut taxes on million-dollar incomes | Analysis & Opinion |




How Obama wants to cut taxes on million-dollar incomes: What happens to people on seven-figure incomes when they pay lower taxes on their first $250,000 income, but higher taxes on the rest, as the Obama administration is proposing? It turns out that they end up paying fewer taxes altogether: $6,349 less per year, on average.... This is definitely not what I would have expected. For households in the $200k to $500k range I can see that the benefits from the lower-income tax cuts might...

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Published on August 14, 2010 10:11
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