GOLDMAN: Obama Will End Up Extracting A Little More Than $800 Billion From The Rich

GOLDMAN: Obama Will End Up Extracting A Little More Than $800 Billion From The Rich

by Rob Wile at Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/goldman-sachs-on-obama-taxes-for-wealthy-2012-11

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Of course, President Obama is unlikely to run the table on getting each of these passed.

So here's what Phillips thinks will really happen:

The agreement that policymakers will (hopefully) reach before year end seems likely to involve an increase in tax rates from current levels and it could also involve a limitation in tax preferences. Our fiscal assumptions for 2013 include a tax increase equivalent to allowing the upper income tax cuts to expire. This amount--$56bn in 2013 and a little more than $800bn over ten years--is halfway between the President's proposals and what Republicans would prefer.

The White House seems likely to succeed in raising at least this much revenue, though it remains to be seen whether it will come in one agreement at year-end, or a two-stage process involving a debate on more comprehensive tax reform next year.


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