Cut Deficit Without Raising Taxes

Cut Deficit Without Raising Taxes

There is a way to cut budget deficits without raising tax rates. "Tax expenditures" are the special features of U.S. income tax law that subsidize mortgage borrowing, health insurance, local government spending and more. Although these subsidies are a form of government spending, they are counted as reduced tax revenue rather than increased government outlays. Yet tax expenditures increase the deficit by hundreds of billions of dollars a year, more than the total cost of all non-defense programs other than Social Security and Medicare.

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