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Tax Base Broadening ?

…calculated by adjusting income then applying the tax function. The almost universal conflation of the marginal tax rate and the marginal benefit to the taxpayer of a tax expenditure is…

HOW TO PAY FOR SOCIAL SECURITY

…and watch the effect of the tax increases on the “take home” of the average worker. year wage taxrate tax take home 2010 43084 0.124 5342 37700 2011 44687 0.125…

…after the tax is imposed than before. Most states have sales taxes around 8%. To replace all income taxes with consumption taxes would require a federal consumption tax of at…