Warren Buffett calls for higher taxes to pay for expenditure; William Gale says, he is RightHe says past tax hikes have included big budget agreements, tax on income says spending CutsHe households must increase; ItGale can make in the top 1%: increase sales and reduce deficit would not expand Bush tax cutsEditor's Note: William G. Gale is senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and Co-Director of the urban-Brookings tax policy Center.(CNN) Sunday Times, Warren Buffett explained the need to control the range of the New York to increase. He is absolutely right. Tax increases in the General-as also tax increases on the wealthiest households, insbesondere-- must be part of the solution.
Over at big budget agreements such as the 1983 included social security reforms and the 1990 and 1993 budget offers, ultimately increases and reductions appropriations. It's not hard to see why: cutting deficits from both sides of the budget offers a sense of fairness, shared sacrifice, and political balance.
Also, has the higher taxes to pay for current expenditure more effectively enable to restraining expenditure the Government to finance its expenditure with deficits proved to be. Every time, when we tried to reduce the expenditure of restraining tax, we do not have. Under President George W. Bush fell in the 1980s under President Ronald Reagan, and in the last ten years, but control expenditure rose. The only time in the last 30 years as expenditure fell in the 1990s also expressed years under President Bill Clinton, as control.
Even the massive tax increases during and after the second Weltkrieg--amounting to a permanent increase of 10% to 15% of the Bruttoinlandsprodukts-and much smaller tax increases in 1990 and 1993 no detectable damage on US economic growth have.
If we manage as part of the tax solution to raise, the tax burden of the high-income, high wealth individuals must rise. The recently adopted debt deal includes only spending cuts and has little or no effect on high-income households. It is rather the entire load to close the tax gap in low and middle income households. High income households should not be excluded, by helping to address the nation tax issue.
Households in the top 1% of the distribution can make a contribution. You have done tremendously well in the last 30-plus years. Their income accounted for 10% of total income received in 1979. According to the most recent data (from 2008) its share of the total household income more than doubled to 21%. On the other hand, real incomes for middle class has remained constant employees over the same period, about.
There are of course better and worse ways to control raise. A general aim would be to expand the tax base-reduces the use of specialised credits, deductions, loopholes and etc.--and minimize the extent of the tax prices must rise.
A good place to the start? High income households: limit the rate of the expanded deductions to 28% can occur. This affects only households in the highest income ranges, it would not increase their official marginal tax rate and it would be $293 billion over the next decade relative to the, how much money would be raised under the current law cause according to the Congressional Budget Office. This would be a small step in the right direction.
Adherence to current law Erträge-is, of course-in other words, do not extend tax cuts the Bush administration after the scheduled expiration date of 2012 or numbers for each extension with a reduction in the various tax issues-even more important. Expand the Bush revenue of about $2.5 trillion would reduce tax cuts over the next decade, relative to the current law. Net interest savings count, it costs $3 trillion. To run the cuts could actually help economic growth, because that would lower deficits more than offset the impact of lower marginal tax rates, and it would be progressive. That would be a big step in the right direction.
Finally, the ballooning the nation must have social security, Medicare and Medicaid costs for an aging population. Even if further substantial cuts in these programmes are made, a need for additional revenue will create the combination of a greatly expanded elderly population and higher Federal Republic of net interest payments than in the past (due to the higher ratio of public debt to GDP). Are there are also good options, including a VAT-the equivalent of the national consumption tax and a feature of all industrialised countries except the USA - the tax system and higher energy taxes to a cleaner environment promote to increase turnover.
All of this means that the United States to European tax levels must be moved. But between which depleted tax revenues, which we jetzt-- the lowest share of the economy in six decades improve - and experienced the high taxes in European countries, there are to increase space to sales in economically sound way an adequate government support.
The opinions in this commentary are solely those of William G. Gale expressed.
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