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It’S Not That Difficult: The Shared Economic Growth Solution To Tax Reform, Matthew Lykken Jun 2015

It’S Not That Difficult: The Shared Economic Growth Solution To Tax Reform, Matthew Lykken

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In this article, I outline the latest version of the Shared Economic Growth package proposal and explain how it accomplishes all of its goals, with reference to some of the recent scholarly works that support it. I then walk through the derivation of the numbers to show that it really works, based on conservative assumptions and without any reliance on economic growth or voodoo, and that it would provide a substantial addition to revenue in the coming years. These numbers are based on 2010 data, the most recent comprehensive data available, and thus prove that the proposal works in the …