Yesterday, we highlighted a one-page report prepared by the Treasury Department which claimed that – in what was perhaps one of the most unrealistically optimistic budget projections to ever be produced by the US government agency – the Senate’s version of the Republican tax plan would, somehow, bolster GDP to a 2.9% real growth rate over 10 years.
The report – a transparent attempt to distract from the plan’s elimination of more than $1.5 trillion in total receipts, while emphasizing its potential pro-growth aspects – relies on a scenario where the economy achieves a baseline of 2.9% GDP growth over the coming decade, compared with the Treasury’s previous projection of 2.2%.
This additional 0.7 percentage point of annual growth, the report claims, will lead to an increase in tax revenue of $1.8 trillion. Treasury “expects approximately half of this 0.7% increase in growth to come from changes to corporate taxation, while the other half is expected to come from changes to pass-through taxation and individual tax reform, as well as from a combination of regulatory reform, infrastructure development, and welfare reform as proposed in the Administration’s Fiscal Year 2018 budget.”
This post was published at Zero Hedge on Dec 12, 2017.
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