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Tax revenues transferred to pensioners could have been invested in infrastructure, education, scientific research, defense, and all the other urgent causes that politicians claim to support.
Inside America’s Tax BattleBERKELEY – America’s recent presidential election answered the question of whether an increase in revenues will be part of the country’s long-run deficit-reduction plan.
But there are still deep political and ideological divisions about how additional revenues should be raised and who should pay higher taxes.
But how should additional revenues be raised from top taxpayers to achieve these two goals?
Most economists believe that increasing revenues by reforming the tax code and broadening the tax base is “probably” better for the economy’s long-term growth than raising income-tax rates.
Republicans have proposed tax reforms in lieu of rate hikes on high-income taxpayers to raise revenues for deficit reduction.
Obama has signaled that he is willing to consider this approach, provided it increases tax revenues from the top 2-3% by at least the same amount as higher rates while protecting other taxpayers.
Asset prices fell, households began a lengthy process of deleveraging, savings rose, and government – faced with falling revenues and rising expenditures on unemployment insurance – could not make up the difference.
But if the EU had agreed on a VER, European producers would have received that $4 billion from higher sales revenues, and for them this sum would have been a very important shot in the arm, allowing them to invest in higher productivity and more sustainable production.
In other words, to the extent that Trump just wants allies to reduce their exports to the US, this can be accommodated by EU producers increasing prices and pocketing the higher revenues – never mind that US consumers of steel would thereby be subsidizing foreign steel producers.
It so happens that the Angolan government borrowed a similar sum from private banks in this period, mortgaging future oil revenues as security.
More significantly, in a speech in Mumbai earlier this year, he laid out requirements for legitimizing Marange diamonds that included some assurance that “the revenues from the diamond sales are distributed legally and in a way that reasonably and fairly benefits the people of Zimbabwe.”
That is why Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has announced that half of the extra revenues raised from the consumption-tax hike that will go into effect in 2019 will be invested in pre-school education.
A simple flat-rate income tax would also boost revenues, as it has in Russia.
Government in the US (federal, state, and local) is a net dis-saver, meaning that current outlays (for consumption, interest payments on the public debt, and transfers) exceed revenues, currently by around 2% of GNI.
Every president since Ronald Reagan has promised “middle-class tax cuts” and other tax breaks, undermining revenues and leaving the federal budget in chronic deficit.
Opposition legislators wanted electoral reform, but no new taxes; the administration wanted more revenues, but no new election laws.
Moreover, contributions from national budgets constitute the vast majority of revenues.
Member state governments consider these revenues “their money” and compare them to “their receipts.”
A textbook response suggests that a government should adjust fiscal expenditures in response to permanent (or very persistent) drops in export and budget revenues.
In this situation, government deficits rise naturally, as tax revenues decline and spending on unemployment insurance and other benefits rises.
America’s gravest fiscal problem is the short- and medium-run deficit between tax revenues and spending.
Moreover, many fragile states are rich in natural resources, and must establish transparent resource management – aimed at curbing corruption and controlling illicit flows of money and goods – in order to raise the revenues needed to deliver services.
However, the revenues will almost certainly be lower, and the costs higher, than calculations used to promote them would imply.
The French government expects budget revenues to match all spending except debt service by 2014.
So, not only is public debt set to increase much faster than nominal GDP growth, but governments will have to devote an increasing share of their revenues to interest payments.
If the aim is to augment revenues, a Tobin tax is the wrong tool.
When added up, such spending is unaffordable, especially with current federal revenues at just 15% of GDP.
The solution for many Democrats is to raise revenues by taxing the rich.
Because CO2 capture and storage adds costs and yields no revenues, government support is needed to make it happen quickly on a scale large enough to affect global emissions.
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