Tax Rates, Tax Revenues and Economic Growth

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No. 159

Friday, March 01, 1991

by Gerald W. Scully

Prior to the 1980s, most people assumed that if governments raised tax rates they would collect more total revenue from taxpayers. We now have dynamic evidence from the United States that a decrease in tax rates can lead to larger revenues.

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