Republican Tax Plan Raises Taxes On Middle Class

Republicans have been attracting votes by selling a number of falsehoods, such as that they spend less, tax less, and raise the deficit less than Democrats. All are false. In the case of taxes, Republican policies for several years have called for lower taxes for the ultra-wealthy, but higher taxes for the middle class This is seen in an analysis of the House plan, which has been supported by Mitt Romney:

The report, prepared by Senate Democrats and reviewed by nonpartisan tax experts, marks the first attempt to quantify the trade-offs inherent in the GOP tax package, which would replace the current tax structure with two brackets — 25 percent and 10 percent — and cut the top rate from 35 percent.

Those changes would benefit virtually every taxpayer, but they also would reduce federal tax collections by about $4.5 trillion over the next decade, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center. To avoid increasing the national debt by that amount, GOP leaders such as House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (Wis.) have pledged to get rid of all the special-interest loopholes and tax shelters that litter the code.

Republicans have declined to identify their targets. However, some of the biggest “loopholes” on the books are popular tax breaks for employer-provided health insurance, mortgage interest, state and local taxes, and retirement savings, which disproportionately benefit the upper middle class.

So although households earning $100,000 to $200,000 a year would save about $7,000 from the lower tax rates in the GOP plan, those savings would be swamped by eliminating major deductions, according to the report by the Democratically controlled congressional Joint Economic Committee.

The net result: Married couples in that income range would pay an additional $2,700 annually to the Internal Revenue Service, on top of the tax increases that are scheduled to hit every American household when the George W. Bush-era cuts expire at the end of the year.

Households earning more than $1 million a year, meanwhile, could see a net tax cut of about $300,000 annually.

 

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    Grung_e_Gene says:

    This is nott accidental this is intentional. The republicans have been shifting the burden of the tax code to the Middle Class for decades. IT’s all an effort to transfer wealth to the Richest 1% while putting the burden of the country onto the backs of the middle class in an effort to destroy it. By destroying the middle class the Republicans will break their political power and allow the Plutocrats whom they serve to rule.

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