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New York Times (May 4)

2011/ 05/ 07 by jd in Global News

Harvard Professor Martin Feldstein writes that raising the income tax rate is unnecessary. Limiting tax deductions, allowances and other credits is, however, essential. Feldstein proposed capping these at 2% of each tax payer’s adjusted gross income. This alone, “would raise tax revenue by $278 billion — nearly 30 percent of total projected income tax revenue for this year.”