Comments on: Means Testing is a Marginal Tax Increase, Ctd

By: Get Rid Timeshare

Get Rid Timeshare — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:08:33 +0000

Thankfully some bloggers can still write. Thanks for this piece

By: Ryan P

Ryan P — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:57:59 +0000

Sure, it’s a marginal tax increase, but it’s also a major cut in spending, which works out to be a decrease in taxes (and marginal tax rates because that’s how these things work). Hard to see how anyone would argue that works out to be a net loss for incentives, and I’m kind of skeptical you think so

By: Blackadder

Blackadder — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:19:49 +0000

Means testing is not a marginal tax increase. When tax rates go up people have to pay the extra taxes now. With means testing benefit cuts occur can several decades after an individual earns enough income to “qualify” for the means test. Discounting means they are not equivalent.