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Be Afraid (you Know The Rest)

Posted on 03/13/2007 19:38 PM | Link | Post Comment
Here's a scary graph -- it's a sneak preview from the Heritage Foundation's latest Federal Budget Chartbook, thanks to Heritage's blogger Robert Bluey. It shows the future track of federal tax receipts as a fraction of GDP, and it's up, up and away even if the 2003 tax cuts are extended past 2010. Why? The Alternative Minimum Tax and "real bracket creep" -- people moving into higher tax brackets as productivity growth makes everyone wealthier -- are the culprits. To prevent this, we have to think about cutting taxes. But right now the Dems in control just talk about hiking taxes.

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