New Study Shows Tax Cuts For Top 10% Don’t Help Economic Growth

By Alan with comments September 12, 2012 19:43

It you want to stimulate the economy, cut taxes for the bottom 90%, reveals a new study by Owen M. Zidar, a former staff economist on President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers and a graduate student at California-Berkeley.

“Almost all of the stimulative effect of tax cuts,” Zidar found, “results from tax cuts for the bottom 90%. A one percent of GDP tax cut for the bottom 90% results in 2.7 percentage points of GDP growth over a two-year period. The corresponding estimate for the top 10% is 0.13 percentage points and is insignificant statistically.”