What is the best tax policy?
Imagine that you are the economic advisor to a political candidate who is trying to decide about tax policy. She asks you to prepare one paragraph position paper on each of the following:
- Based on the distribution of personal income (See Table 2.4 in your textbook), should U.S. taxes be adjusted to be:
- More progressive?
- More regressive?
- Keep the distribution the same?
2. Which U.S. taxes should be adjusted to achieve the outcome you describe in question one?