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Incremental Versus Fundamental Tax Reform And The Top One Percent, Deborah A. Geier
Incremental Versus Fundamental Tax Reform And The Top One Percent, Deborah A. Geier
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This article describes the historical shift from consumption taxation at the federal level to income taxation with the enactment of the 16th amendment (the intent of which was chiefly to tax the capital income of the wealthy) and the incremental shifts since then back toward consumption taxation (which frees capital from tax) through expansion of both the payroll taxes as well as the consumption tax features of our current hybrid income/consumption tax that target the middle class.
It then addresses the issue of whether we ought to expand consumption tax treatment to the very wealthy by reviewing two recently published …