Comparing the projections of the Federal Budget after 2009: Baseline (if no change in policy were happen) vs the President’s Budget.

Graph from CBO’s March report found via Economix Blog – NYTimes.com
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Making the “Invisible Hand” Visible
Comparing the projections of the Federal Budget after 2009: Baseline (if no change in policy were happen) vs the President’s Budget.

Graph from CBO’s March report found via Economix Blog – NYTimes.com
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ADDED NEW VERSION 2/10/2009
Recently the CBO published a supplement to their Historical Effective Federal Tax Rates: 1979 to 2005 report to include a breakdown of top 1% into smaller percentiles. I took the data for income and created this visualization. It is comparing the minimum income for each percentile to the average income in that percentile.
UPDATED VERSION {Click on the image to take a closer look}
ORIGINAL VERSION {Click on the image to take a closer look}
Data from Congressional Budget Office
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In an earlier post, I had a graph showing the Historical Tax Rates by Income Group using data from Pitketty & Saez. Here is another graph (found on Greg Mankiw’s Blog) which shows historical tax rates by income group but this time the data is from the Congressional Budget Office.

Addendum 3/3/08
The large difference between the two graphs is due to the treatment of payroll taxes paid by employers and the corporate income tax. The Pitketty & Saez data assumes these taxes are actually paid by employees and stockholders but the CBO data in the above graph does not include them.
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