Microeconomics (7th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780134737508
Author: R. Glenn Hubbard, Anthony Patrick O'Brien
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 18, Problem 18.2.6PA
To determine
Is the tax is progressive or regressive.
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In 1989, Senator Bob Packwood asked Congress’s Joint Committee on Taxation how much extra revenue the government would raise if it just started taxing 100% of all income over $200,000 per year. The Joint Committee crunched some numbers and reported an answer: $204 billion per year.
a. What is wrong with this answer?
In 1989, very few people made over $200,000 a year, so the estimate of the tax revenue is far too high.
Increasing government spending by $204 billion each year would have generated economic growth, and subsequently even higher amounts of tax revenues.
The Joint Committee on Taxation did not have the tools needed to make such an estimate accurately.
No one would have an incentive to work once they had earned $200,000, so much of the taxable income would disappear.
Briefly discuss the effect of price elasticity of supply and demand on tax incidence.
When the demand for a product is less elastic than supply.
pay the majority of the tax on a product; when supply for a product is less elastic than the
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pay the majority of the tax on the pre
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a) Under which circumstances does the tax
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Microeconomics (7th Edition)
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