Economist: Although obviously cuts in personal income tax rates for the upper income brackets disproportionately benefit the wealthy, across-the-board cuts for all brackets tend to have a similar effect.
Conclusion
Across the board tax cuts for all brackets tends to favor the wealthy.
Evidence
When you cut taxes across the board, you have to raise that missing revenue either through nonprogressive tax increases (which favor the wealthy) or by deficit spending, which leads to govt borrowing and higher interest rates, which favors the wealthy lending class.
Evaluation
It’s always good to remind yourself when you go into a Main Conclusion question that the Conclusion will usually be the first sentence, or it will be some form of rebuttal. Priming your brain for the possibility of a First Sentence Conclusion makes it easier to hear that first claim as the umbrella idea that gets unpacked/supported by all the subsequent claims. Our author spells out a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” (A or ~A) type argument. When you do across the board cuts, then you either raise nonprogressive taxes or you don’t, but each of those roads still leads back to the same finish line of favoring the wealthy.
Goal
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