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Middle class would face higher taxes under Republican plan, analysis finds
By Lori Montgomery
June 19
The tax reform plan that House Republicans have advanced would sharply cut taxes for the wealthiest Americans and could leave middle-class households facing much larger tax bills, according to a new analysis set to be released Wednesday.
The report, prepared by Senate Democrats and reviewed by nonpartisan tax experts, marks the first attempt to quantify the trade-offs inherent in the GOP tax package, which would replace the current tax structure with two brackets 25 percent and 10 percent and cut the top rate from 35 percent.
Those changes would benefit virtually every taxpayer, but they also would reduce federal tax collections by about $4.5 trillion over the next decade, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center. To avoid increasing the national debt by that amount, GOP leaders such as House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (Wis.) have pledged to get rid of all the special-interest loopholes and tax shelters that litter the code.
Republicans have declined to identify their targets. However, some of the biggest loopholes on the books are popular tax breaks for employer-provided health insurance, mortgage interest, state and local taxes, and retirement savings, which disproportionately benefit the upper middle class.
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By Lori Montgomery
June 19
The tax reform plan that House Republicans have advanced would sharply cut taxes for the wealthiest Americans and could leave middle-class households facing much larger tax bills, according to a new analysis set to be released Wednesday.
The report, prepared by Senate Democrats and reviewed by nonpartisan tax experts, marks the first attempt to quantify the trade-offs inherent in the GOP tax package, which would replace the current tax structure with two brackets 25 percent and 10 percent and cut the top rate from 35 percent.
Those changes would benefit virtually every taxpayer, but they also would reduce federal tax collections by about $4.5 trillion over the next decade, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center. To avoid increasing the national debt by that amount, GOP leaders such as House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (Wis.) have pledged to get rid of all the special-interest loopholes and tax shelters that litter the code.
Republicans have declined to identify their targets. However, some of the biggest loopholes on the books are popular tax breaks for employer-provided health insurance, mortgage interest, state and local taxes, and retirement savings, which disproportionately benefit the upper middle class.
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WaPo: Middle class would face higher taxes under Republican plan, analysis finds (Original Post)
flpoljunkie
Jun 2012
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rfranklin
(13,200 posts)1. "Special interests" means school teachers, union members and Democrats...
People like Mitt and his wife and her horse are real Americans!
flpoljunkie
(26,184 posts)2. Mitt and Ann would reap an obscene tax cut when mere millionaires see net tax cut of about $300,000
Households earning more than $1 million a year, meanwhile, could see a net tax cut of about $300,000 annually.
According to this report, while millionaires will receive a huge tax break, earners making under $200,000 will see their taxes rise significantly, said Sen. Robert P. Casey Jr. (D-Pa.), who chairs the Joint Economic Committee.
Ryan seems to want to have his cake and eat it, too, and this report shows that you cant, added Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), who requested the analysis. If you want to cut taxes on the rich and not raise the deficit, youre going to have to basically clobber the middle class.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/middle-class-would-face-higher-taxes-under-republican-plan/2012/06/19/gJQAD4auoV_story.html?hpid=z4
According to this report, while millionaires will receive a huge tax break, earners making under $200,000 will see their taxes rise significantly, said Sen. Robert P. Casey Jr. (D-Pa.), who chairs the Joint Economic Committee.
Ryan seems to want to have his cake and eat it, too, and this report shows that you cant, added Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), who requested the analysis. If you want to cut taxes on the rich and not raise the deficit, youre going to have to basically clobber the middle class.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/middle-class-would-face-higher-taxes-under-republican-plan/2012/06/19/gJQAD4auoV_story.html?hpid=z4