http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2011/07/20/why-the-house-gop-will-deep-six-the-gang-of-six/ Politics and policy from inside Washington Sun, 07 Apr 2013 21:23:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2011/07/20/why-the-house-gop-will-deep-six-the-gang-of-six/comment-page-1/#comment-12798 ojfl Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:07:30 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/?p=10096#comment-12798 I concur Mr. Pethokoukis. If one considers the ordinary baseline is revenues of 18% of GDP, that would translate into about 2.7 trillion dollars. That is 27 trillion over 10 years. Increasing taxes by 2.8 trillion dollars means an increase of over 10% of all federal tax collections. That is an enormous tax increase in times of good economy and probably a disastrous increase in times of bad economic news. Gallup just came out yesterday with news unemployment in creased in the first half of July. If that persists it means unemployment in early August will increase. Another potential problem few people realize is that the extra 280 billion dollars will probably not come from the "rich". Recall the expiration of the tax cuts is thought to bring only 70 billion dollars a year. Either we will soak them by increasing their rate not by 4.6% but rather 18.4% or there will be tax increases for all the 53% of people who indeed pay income taxes or a massive increase in corporate taxes. I concur Mr. Pethokoukis. If one considers the ordinary baseline is revenues of 18% of GDP, that would translate into about 2.7 trillion dollars. That is 27 trillion over 10 years. Increasing taxes by 2.8 trillion dollars means an increase of over 10% of all federal tax collections. That is an enormous tax increase in times of good economy and probably a disastrous increase in times of bad economic news. Gallup just came out yesterday with news unemployment in creased in the first half of July. If that persists it means unemployment in early August will increase. Another potential problem few people realize is that the extra 280 billion dollars will probably not come from the “rich”. Recall the expiration of the tax cuts is thought to bring only 70 billion dollars a year. Either we will soak them by increasing their rate not by 4.6% but rather 18.4% or there will be tax increases for all the 53% of people who indeed pay income taxes or a massive increase in corporate taxes.

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