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THE LAFFER CURVE—DOES IT SHIFT?
Congress did not substantially change Federal income tax rates between 1993 and 2000. Visit the Bureau of Economic Analysis Web site, http://www.bea.gov/, and use the interactive feature for National Income and Product Accounts tables to find Table 3.2 on Federal government current receipts and expeditures. Find the annual revenues from the Federal income tax from 1993 to 2000. What happened to those revenues over those years? Given constant tax rates, what do the changes in tax revenues suggest about changes in the location of the Laffer Curve? If lower (or higher) tax rates do not explain the changes in tax revenues, what do you think does?
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DYNAMIC TAX SCORING—WHAT IS IT, AND WHO WANTS IT?
Go to http://www.google.com and search for information on "dynamic tax scoring." What is it? How does it relate to supply-side economics? Which political groups support this approach, and why? What groups oppose it, and why?





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