Tax Policy at a Crossroads (slideshow)

Publication Date: June 2007

Publisher: Tax Policy Center

Author(s): Leonard E. Burman

Research Area:

Keywords: Economy; Federal Budgets & Fiscal Policy; Income and Wealth Distribution; Tax Policy

Type: Audio/Visual

Abstract:

Burman outlines "action forcing events" including exploding entitlement costs, the AMT, increased economic inequality, and the expiration of the bush tax cuts that make a change in tax policy necessary. He concludes with good and bad ways to raise income tax revenues.