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I was addressing the thread topic, care to address that? Income tax dollars come from personal income earned by individuals and companies. Think that the expiration of the Bush tax cuts for the top income earners will generate 36 billion in revenue to the govt?
70 pages and nearly 700 post later and you're still asking this same question which was answered in the first few paragraphes of the article from the OP...
New data from the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation show that households earning more than $1 million a year would reap nearly $31 billion in tax breaks under the GOP plan in 2011, for an average tax cut per household of about $100,000.
The analysis, requested by Democrats on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, comes as debate heats up over tax cuts enacted during the Bush administration, most of which are scheduled to expire at the end of this year. Republicans want to extend all the cuts, which would cost the Treasury Department $238 billion in 2011, according to the taxation committee. President Obama and congressional Democrats have vowed to extend the cuts only for families making less than $250,000 a year and individuals making less than $200,000 -- 98 percent of American taxpayers -- in a plan that would add about $202 billion to next year's deficit.
Simple math...
238 - 202 = 36
That's where your $36 million comes from. Now, whether the fed uses that money to pay down the deficit or applies it to other programs is up to them (unless, of course, the people voice their opinions on the matter). But that's where the figure comes from - a difference between extending the Bush tax cuts for all or elimitating them for some and allowing them to remain in affect for others.
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