Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/59462 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2011-21
Publisher: 
Rutgers University, Department of Economics, New Brunswick, NJ
Abstract: 
In August 2009 the Congressional Budget Offi ce warned that the budget was on an unsustainable path. Preventing federal debt from growing faster than the economy over the long-run requires large increases in revenues and/or decreases in spending. We explore, using the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center Model, whether incremental reforms of the current tax system could raise enough revenue to reduce the deficit to a sustainable level over the last fi ve years of the current 10-year budget window. We conclude that feasible tax increases within the current tax structure cannot generate suffi cient revenues to bring federal budget defi cits under control.
Subjects: 
budget deficit
tax reform
individual taxation
JEL: 
H20
H60
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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