Talking Tax Reform: Taxing the Rich The beginning of 2019 has seen a flurry of proposals to increase taxes on high-income individuals, including an increase in the top income tax rate to 70 percent and a possible wealth tax. This panel will discuss these various proposals and answer important questions for policymakers to consider: How might high-earner taxes be structured, and should they be implemented at all? Would these proposals accomplish their desired effect of curbing income inequality? How much revenue could new taxes on the rich realistically be expected to generate? What would be the economic impact of raising taxes on high-income taxpayers? Kyle Pomerleau, Tax Foundation Chief Economist and Vice President of Economic Analysis, will moderate the panel, which will include: Aparna Mathur, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute Len Burman, Institute Fellow, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center Nicole Kaeding, Vice President of Federal Projects, Tax Foundation Steve Wamhoff, Director of Federal Tax Policy at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy RSVP Here
