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1 Gerald Prante, The Distribution of Tax and Spending Policies in the United States 1 (2013)

handle is hein.taxfoundation/taxfaadc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Nov. 2013 No. 211 I C ) ibuti r I Ul ~,I I Introduction and Overview Governments at all levels throughout the United States impose taxes in order to finance spending programs intended to benefit their citizens. A common question posed about these fiscal policies is how their costs and benefits are distributed across different subgroups of the population, most notably by income group. In other words, how much do people pay in taxes versus how much do they receive in government spending? While the distribution of the tax burden is a frequent topic of debate-especially in Washington, DC-there is little attention given to the distribution of spending programs. And rarely has there been any attempt to analyze the totality of tax and spending programs across all levels of government. This study seeks to f11 this void by analyzing the distribution of both taxes and government spending at both the federal and state and local levels. The goal is to compare how much families at various income levels pay in all taxes-from state and local motor vehicle licenses to the SPECIAL REPORT By Gerald Prante, PhD and Scott Hodge'

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