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Use of 2009 baseline VoorArgument1 #232162 To produce his estimates Feldstein uses IRS data for 2009, the most recent year for which data is available - but also the worst year for the recession. Selecting a year when tax revenue was low artificially reduces the cost of the rate cuts - and the concession changes needed to offset them.

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Use of 2009 baselineUse of 2009 baseline☜To produce his estimates Feldstein uses IRS data for 2009, the most recent year for which data is available - but also the worst year for the recession. Selecting a year when tax revenue was low artificially reduces the cost of the rate cuts - and the concession changes needed to offset them.☜98CE71

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Link[1] Is Romney’s tax plan mathematically possible, after all?

Citerend uit: Ezra Klein
Publication info: 10 September 2012 - Washington Post blog
Geciteerd door: Peter Baldwin 4:41 AM 25 October 2012 GMT
Citerank: (2) 232174Micro-behavioral offsetsOne of the authors of the TPC analysis argues that Rosen expects taxpayers to adjust their behavior to rate cuts, but fails to do so in a symmetrical fashion for reduced tax concessions. These would offset revenue gains from the former.1198CE71, 232183Political resistanceThe TPC and its defenders point out that they have been conservative in their analysis in that they have set the bar low for the Romney plan - only testing if it is mathematically possible. Given the popularity of many of the concessions many of the mooted changes would be hard to do in practise.1198CE71
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/09/10/is-romneys-tax-plan-mathematically-possible-after-all/

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5) The Tax Policy Center was using projections for 2015. Feldstein uses receipts from 2009. Ordinarily, that might not matter much, but 2009 was the worst year of the recession, and so it depressed incomes and made it cheaper to reduce rates. It’s unclear how much of an effect this has on Feldstein’s calculations, but a number of people mentioned it to me.

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