Kotlikoff: Ideal Tax Reform Pays for Itself

Tax Law Changes: Good, Bad and Ugly

Laurence Kotlikoff and his colleagues have used their state-of-the-art international model of capital flows to estimate the effects of a corporate tax reform that is very similar to the original proposal made by Paul Ryan and the House Republicans in 2016. Result: the reform would not only pay for itself (though a net increase in federal revenues), it would generate a surplus sufficient to allow some reduction in personal income taxes.

For a worker earning $80,000, the expected increase in wage income would be about $5040 per year. For someone earing $40,000, the expected increase in wage income would be about $3,000 per year. MORE.

John C. Goodman is President of the Goodman Institute and Senior Fellow at The Independent Institute. His books include the soon-to-be-published updated edition of Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis, the widely acclaimed A Better Choice: Healthcare Solutions for America, and New Way to Care: Social Protections that Put Families First. The Wall Street Journal and National Journal, among other media, have called him the “Father of Health Savings Accounts.”