Chapter 14 Government Spending, Taxation, and the National Debt: Who Wins and Who Loses? Copyright © 2010 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. McGraw-Hill/Irwin
14-2 What Are People Afraid Of? Size of Government Tax Inequities
14-3 Total Government Expenditures and Federal Government Expenditures as a Percentage of GDP,
14-4 Total Government Purchases, Transfer Payments and Interest Paid as a Percentage of GDP,
14-5 Total Government Receipts and Federal Government Receipts as a Percentage of GDP,
14-6 Economic Analysis of the Problem of Size An Efficient Level of Government Expenditures Pure Public Goods Nonrival in consumption Nonexclusion External Benefits and Costs Income Distribution Price per unit P P0P0 PEPE QQEQE D T = MPB D DTDT S = MPC = MSC Quantity per unit of time MEB D = MPB
14-7 Tax Equity Equal tax treatment doctrine – horizontal equity Relative tax treatment doctrine – vertical equity Ability-to-Pay Principle Benefits-Received Principle
14-8 Tax Efficiency Administrative cost Compliance cost Excess burden
14-9 Price Elasticity of Demand Quantity per week Price per week P P1P1 Q DADA Q1AQ1A Q1BQ1B DBDB
14-10 Perfectly Price Inelastic Quantity per week Price per week D Q P1P1 P2P2
14-11 Perfectly Price Elastic Quantity per week Price per week D Q
14-12 Output Tax Quantity per week Price per week D1D1 Q S1S1 D2D2 S2S2 Pretax equilibrium Post-tax equilibrium Amount of tax per unit
14-13 Output Tax Quantity per week Price per week D Q S S1S1 Pretax equilibrium Post-tax equilibrium Amount of tax per unit Q1Q1
14-14 Tax Share in Selected Countries, 2003 NationTaxes Collected as a Percent of GDP Australia36.4 Canada38.1 France54.4 Germany49.4 Italy48.5 Japan38.3 Spain39.3 United Kingdom42.8 United States31.8
14-15 Federal Tax System, 2008
14-16 Effective Federal Tax Rates by Income Category Effective Federal Tax Rate (%) Income Category Lowest quintile Second quintile Middle quintile Fourth quintile Highest quintile Overall Top 10 percent Top 5 percent Top 1 percent
14-17 The Personal Income Tax 2008 Tax Rate Schedules
The Debt and the Deficit, The National Debt
14-19 Economic Analysis of Budget Deficits and Surpluses Economic effects of government borrowing on interest rates Expansionary effect of budget deficits Contractionary effect of budget surpluses Economic Effects of Federal Debt Retirement
14-20 Recent Tax Reforms The Economic Growth and Taxpayer Relief Reconciliation Act 2001 Rationale for the Bush tax cuts Critique of the Bush tax cuts Job Creation and Worker Assistance Act 2002 Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Act 2003 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 2008